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Alexander Cooper

(1609-c.1660) A young Nobleman, probably Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke (1621-1669), wearing green doublet and falling lace collar with tassels, his auburn hair worn long, wet-in-wet red curtain background

c. 1635

Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, mounted on card in later gilt-metal frame

Oval, 2 in. (52 mm) high

Provenance

Lord Glenconner by 1931[1];

Sotheby's, London, 19 October 1981, lot 51

[1] The copy of the present miniature in the Victoria and Albert Museum portrait was described as after an original miniature (presumably the present work) by Alexander Cooper belonging to ‘Lord Glenconner’. This was described c.1931 by the Hon. FHA Wallop when the later copy was lent to the Museum.