The Portrait Miniatures of Samuel Cooper - Exhibition

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The Portrait Miniatures of Samuel Cooper - Exhibition

<span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">A major loan exhibition dedicated to the first internationally celebrated British artist, Samuel Cooper, will go display at the </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond,Bold';">Philip Mould gallery from 13 November </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond,Bold';">– </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond,Bold';">7 December 2013 (Preview Tuesday, 12 November)</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">. Known to his contemporaries as ‘the prince of limners’ or ‘Vandyck in little’, Samuel Cooper’s miraculous portrait miniatures were sought after in his lifetime </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">by collectors across Europe, most memorably Charles II and Oliver Cromwell. </span>

<span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">Lenders to the exhibition include Her Majesty the Queen, The Duke of Buccleuch, Castle Howard, Burghley House, The Ashmolean Museum, The Fitzwilliam Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. The exhibition takes its name from the Duke of </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">Buccleuch’s iconic unfinished portrait of Oliver Cromwell, which, for the first time, will be hung alongside Sir Peter Lely’s identical portrait of Cromwell [on loan from Birmingham Museum and Art </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">Gallery]. The death mask of Oliver Cromwell will also be loaned from Warwick Castle to allow </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">visitors to compare his features to Cooper’s </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond,Italic';">ad vivum </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">sketch and subsequent portraits. As the exhibition will conclusively show, it is to Cooper that Oliver Cromwell is believed to have made </span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: 'Garamond';">clear his desire to be painted 'warts and all'</span>

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