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Samuel Cooper

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Samuel Cooper 1609-72, one of the greatest English miniaturists. A student of Hoskins, he worked in London from c.1642. He painted portraits of numerous celebrated Englishmen. His draftsmanship and unusual use of lighting made his vellum-on-card head-and-shoulder paintings remarkable. Specimens of his work are to be found at Windsor Castle; in the collections of the duke of Buccleuch and the duke of Devonshire (the latter containing the famous portrait of Cromwell familiar through engravings); in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; in the Rijks Museum; and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.... Read more
Cooper, Samuel
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Cooper, Samuel (1798–1876) Confederate ... born in Fishkill, New York. Cooper was military assistant to the ... resigned his commission in 1861. Cooper, a close friend and confidant ... in Virgina. Upon secession, Cooper traveled to the Confederate ... Read more
Alexander Cooper
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Alexander Cooper see under Cooper, Samuel . Author not available, COOPER, ALEXANDER. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more

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