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Samuel Cooper

(1609-72) Portrait of a Lady, traditionally identified as Elizabeth Claypole (Cleypole), née Cromwell (1629-58)
1654
Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, mounted on a playing card in silver-gilt frame with scroll surmount. Silver-gilt frame with scroll surmount, reverse engraved with the sitter's name
Oval, 2.63 in (67 mm) high

Provenance

Henry Gordon Bois;
his executor's sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1947, lot 73;
Robert H. Rockliff, of Compton Grange, Eastbourne;
Sotheby's, London, 11 November 1947, lot 46;
Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1968, lot 46;
Christie's, London, 23 March 1982, lot 333.