DETAILS
- Artist
- Samuel Cooper
- Date
- 1655
- Medium
- watercolor on vellum in a gilt metal frame
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture
- England, 17th century
- Credit line
- The Edward B. Greene Collection
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THE ARTIST
Samuel Cooper
Samuel Cooper, the 'most famous limner of the world for a face,' captured the likenesses of 17th-century English society in exquisite miniature portraits.
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