Samuel
Cooper was born in 1609. After studying painting under his uncle,
John Hoskins, he travelled around Europe.
He later emerged as the greatest English miniaturist of the 17th Century.
He painted portraits of Oliver
Cromwell,
John
Milton,
George
Monck,
John
Pym,
Earl
of Newcastle,
Henry
Ireton,
Oliver
Cromwell,
Richard
Cromwell,
Robert
Lilburne,
John
Carew,
Earl of Shaftesbury, Charles
II and James II.
Samuel Cooper died on 5th
May, 1672.
John
Maitland, Ist Duke of Lauderdale (1664)
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