Lot 11
  • 11

SAMUEL COOPER | Portrait of a lady, circa 1650

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Cooper
  • Portrait of a lady, circa 1650
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, mounted on a playing card, gilt-metal and enamel frame;signed centre right with the artist's initials: S.C.
  • 73 by 59mm

Provenance

Robert H. Rockliff, Compton Grange, Eastbourne;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 November 1947, lot 44;
with H.E. Backer, London;
sale, London, Phillips, 26 February 1986, lot 387;
with Edwin Bucher, Trogen, 1986

Condition

The pigments have probably faded overall but the surface if good.
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