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Samuel Cooper

Samuel Cooper (1609 - 1672) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Samuel Cooper is known for Miniature painting.

Samuel Cooper was born in London where he and his brother, Alexander, were raised by his uncle John Hoskins.  Hoskins was a miniature painter and trained the two brothers in the art of limning until around 1641-1642 when Samuel set up an independent practice.  It is possible that the studio of Hoskins may have been close to that of Sir Anthony Van Dyck given that Samuel Cooper's earliest biographer, Richard Graham, noted that Cooper 'derived the most considerable advantages, from the observations which he made on the works of Van Dyck (K. Hearn [ed.], exhibition catalogue Van Dyck & Britain, London, 2009, p. 181).

One of Samuel Cooper's earliest miniatures, of circa 1635, depicts Van Dyck's mistress, Margaret Lemon.  During the Civil War and interregnum period, Cooper's patrons included Oliver Cromwell, who commissioned portraits of his family, and fellow Roundheads and Cavaliers.  Following the Restoration in 1660 he caught the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1591 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Samuel Cooper available:    John Hoskins,  Nicholas Hilliard,  Richard Gibson,  Philippe Jean,  Peter Cross,  Charles Boit,  John Cox Dillman Engleheart,  William Wood,  John Smart,  Nicholas Dixon,  Christian Friedrich Zincke,  Jeremiah Meyer,  Richard Crosse,  Andrew Plimer,  Benjamin Arlaud,  Thomas Flatman,  Peter Oliver,  Nathaniel Plimer,  Samuel Shelley,  John Barry,  George Engleheart,  Louis Marie Sicardi,  Franciszek Smiadecki,  Jean Andre Rouquet