Artist: Samuel Cooper (1609 - 1672)
Nationality: English
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
After learning the technique of miniature painting from his uncle, John Hoskins, Samuel Cooper became the most renowned painter of his genre. Cooper was also known to be a skilled musician and writer. He was commissioned by the Commonwealth and produced portraits of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles II. Cooper also painted on ivory and parchment, designed coins, and was a talented draughtsman.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Charles II (1630-1685), King of England Style of Samuel Cooper (British, probably after 1672)Vellum laid
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Henry Carey (1596-1661), Second Earl of Monmouth, 1649 Samuel Cooper (British, 1608?–1672)Vellum on prepared card;
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Myles Birket Foster, Portrait of Milton (from the picture by Samuel Cooper), title page vignette and illustration 1 in the book Milton"s L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W. Kent & Co., 1859), 185
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William Dunlap - Mrs. Thomas A. Cooper n.d. oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Copied after John Singleton Copley, American, 1738-1815 Samuel Cooper after 1769 Oil on canvas 76.52
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Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be Lucy Percy (1600?–1660), Countess of Carlisle, 1653 Samuel
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Thomas Rowlandson, Lottery Drawing, Cooper"s Hall, 1808
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The persuit, Cooper-The Spy, 19th century
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Paine of Islington, Fanny Cooper, 19th century
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Robert Cooper, Untitled (Satyrs and Maenads), after Poussin, 18th century
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Jean Jacques Boissieu, The Cooper"s Workshop, "Les Grands tonneliers", 1790
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Robert Cooper, William Shakespeare, 18th - 19th century
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G.V. Cooper, Sacramento City, CA, From the Foot of J. Street, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Islanders Defense, Cooper-, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, Dr. Reasono, Cooper-The Monikins, 19th century
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F.G. Cooper, America"s Tribute to Britain - World War I poster, circa 1917 - 1918
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Struggle - Cooper, The red rover, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Pilot, Cooper-The Pilot, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Friends, Cooper-The two admirals, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The block - Cooper - The pathfinder, 19th century
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Samuel William Reynolds, Senior, Samuel Whitbred, Esq., 18th - 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Treasure, Cooper-Jack Tier, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Frozen River, Cooper-Satanstoe, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The lost sealers, Cooper-The sea lions, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Peril, Cooper-Homeward bound, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Discovery, Cooper-Jack Tier, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Retreat, Cooper-Lionel Lincoln, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, A Rescue, Cooper-Jack Tier, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The capture, Cooper-Afloat and Ashore, 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Arab - Cooper - Homeward bound, 19th century
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Jacobus Houbraken, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, 17th - 18th century
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Robert Cooper, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Cooper, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, 18th - 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, The Chessmen, Cooper-Jack Tier, 19th century
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Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, The Tale of the Cooper"s Wife (Le Cuvier), circa 1750
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Samuel Palmer, "Christmas" etching in Samuel Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer, 19th century
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George Hollis, Mr. Macready as King Johm and Mr.Cooper as Hubert., 18th - 19th century
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Felix Octavius Carr Darley, La Belle Barberie, Cooper-Water Witch, 19th century
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William Holl (the Younger), Cropley Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, 19th century
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T. S. Cooper, Thirty-four Subjects of Cattle &c. Designs for Pictures (London: Tho[ma]s McLean , 1837), 1837

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Call for Aritsts: The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program
Application deadline
Friday, March 4, 2005 For more information and an application please visit our website: www.cooper.edu/artsummer On campus housing is available. Financial ...
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Exhibition of Works by Sculptor Franca Ghitti
Ghitti has been working with the theme of maps through an art since the 1960s and, by utilizing salvaged wooden planks, the bottoms of large barrels, iron cables and scraps of old notebooks, she tried to define a relationship between habita...
Haunch of Venison: Thomas Joshua Cooper: Point of No Return
Cooper’s most ambitious project is The World’s Edge – The Atlantic Basin Project, an epic endeavour begun in 1990 to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the entire Atlantic Ocean. The Haunch of Venison exhibition, point of ...
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art: Call for Artists: Second Annual Summer Residency Program
Residents of The Cooper Union Summer Residency Program have the option of participating in a wide range of seminars and events, including critiques. A staff of master technicians, who are also practicing artists, provide valuable technical supp...
Siam Art Space: 1+2, a crappy exhibition in too many parts
Though 1+2 takes the style of silent, black and white films, it references many universal and contemporary themes such as domestic violence, love and hate and more recently the uncompromising struggle between Western and Arab cultures. 1+2 views...
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: Solos: Future Shack
The second installment of Cooper-Hewitt's Solos exhibition series, which explores groundbreaking, innovative international and contemporary architecture and design works, spotlights FutureShack because it represents a departure from what we think ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Milton Glaser: Graphic Design
Born in 1929 in New York City, Mr. Glaser studied at The Cooper Union Art School and later, as a Fulbright Scholar, attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy. Throughout a celebrated career, he has ...
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum: The Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard
His stores, showrooms, exhibitions, and houses introduced modern design to millions of Americans, while his restaurants dazzled the public with their theatricality. ...
Presentation House Gallery: TELEPHONES: CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
IMAGE:
Christian Marclay,
Telephones, 1995,
video still. ...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision 5
The exhibition will challenge perceptions of the Victorians. Paul Atterbury, curator of the exhibition, says: “The world of the Victorians relates to our world far more than...
Art Dealers Association of Greater Washington: Art At The Millenium: Part II
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Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg: Ladislav Sutnar: Designer in Two Worlds
Having immigrated to the United States in 1939, he continued to play a role as one of the foremost personalities in the Euro-American avant-garde. His futuristic vision paved the way for the development of today’s principles of information design....
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Exhibition

The exhibition at the New Museum will include works by Simon Aldridge, Naomi Ben-Shahar, Monika Bravo, Laurie Halsey Brown, Justine Cooper, Lucky Debellevue, Carola Dertnig, Mahmoud Hamadani, Kara Hammond, Jeff Konigsberg, Motonobu Kurokawa, Ge...
Museum of Contemporary Photography: on View: Antonia Contro and Maurizio Pellegrin, David Ireland, Clement Cooper
Originally a painter, Chicago artist Antonia Contro creates intricate installations that explore themes of journey and transformation inspired by her own Venetian heritage. Using a SX-70 Polaroid camera, Contro creates both concrete and ethereal ...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Philip Guston: A New Alphabet Brings Pivotal Group of Paintings Together for First Time
The exhibition is co-organized by Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art at the Fogg Art Museum, and Joanna Weber, acting curator of European and contemporary art at the Yale Art Gallery, with the help of Laura Greengold, a recent graduate ...
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
At a critical moment in American history, Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912-1988) Eames responded to emerging postwar consumer needs and demands with experimentation and an aesthetic approach that was a uniquely American interpretation of European...
Organization of Independent Artists: Patterned Behavior - Moku-Hanga: Japanese Waterbase Woodcuts by April Vollmer and Sarah Hauser
April Vollmer received an M.F.A. at Hunter College. In addition to a recent solo exhibit at A.I.R. Gallery, the artist has exhibited at the Islip Art Museum, Goddard Riverside Art Center, Dieu DonnÈ Papermill and other galleries nationally a...
Centre of Attention: Featuring...Curated by Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer
Al+Al
Oreet Ashery
estate of H.W Auden
Simeon Banner
Benedict Carpenter
Rosie Cooper
Greg Daville
Eveleigh and Evans
Nooshin Farhid
A.M. Hanson ('alexcalledsimon')
Jasper Joffe
Tina Keane
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Kabat Wrobel Gallery: Paula Braswell and Dionne Simpson: Urban Decay
Paula Braswell holds an MFA from Florida State University. She has been showing her work in many galleries (public and commercial) across the USA and in Canada. Dionne Simpson's mixed media paintings explore an urbanscape in a contemporary ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: World Views Open Studio Exhibition
New Museum Henry Luce III Director Lisa Phillips said: It is crucial for cultural institutions to work together now and we felt it was important to support a vital downtown arts institution in need. The exhibition at the New Museum will pres...
Virginia Historical Society: Robert Gwathmey: a Retrospective
Gwathmey developed a two-dimensional style that was uniquely his own. His paintings juxtapose primitive, carefully chosen shapes and angles against startling color, often outlined in black. In choosing color, Gwathmey sometimes arranged co...
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego: A Unique American Vision: The Paintings of Gregory Gillespie
Also on view are portraits, still-lifes, and devotional images that Gillespie calls shrines, which combine tour-de-fo...
ARTSCI'99: BUCKY - a one-man performance
Through the powerful universal principles that Buckminster Fuller discovered and utilized during his lifetime, namely, Synergy, Precession, Ephemeralization, and Acceleration of Acceleration, we can explain and predict some of the fastest mutatin...
Esso Gallery: Francesco Simeti: NOW I KNOW MY ABC's
His patterns show images of conflict, crowds of people or military personnel engaged in non-natural disasters and the words are derived from a media-created language. The ability of Francesco Simeti to subvert a given system by using it's own l...
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
Drawing upon public and private collections in Europe and America, the exhibition will unite for the first time fifteen of Mondrian's seventeen transatlantic paintings, including works from the Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Modern, The Phillips C...
Rice Unversity Art Gallery: Untitled (Series No. 2): French Sound Artist Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Boursier-Mougenot's installation at Rice Gallery will include three large inflatable swimming pools, each fitted with silent water pumps and filled with floating porcelain bowls of varying size and dimension. Caught in the current of the circula...
Art Gallery of South Australia: 2002 Adelaide Biennial - conVerge: where art and science meet
Each of the artists in the exhibition are actively engaged with scientific research at the beginning of the 21st century. The exhibition explores some of the fundamental issues facing modern Australia, through creative encounters with diverse syst...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art: Margaret Morton: The Tunnel
Residents dwell in continual darkness, constructing homes of cinder-block bunkers and freestanding hand-made structures in alcoves and on ledges. With sensitivity and compassion, Margaret Morton has chronicled the lives and living spaces of the tu...
Montclair Art Museum: Whitfield Lovell: Portrayals
Lovells work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the Jersey City Museum.  Whitfield Lovell: Portrayals was organized by T...
Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions
Medardo Rosso: Second Impressions will focus on five sculptures spanning Rosso’s mature career. The works are Aetas aurea (The Golden Age), 1886–87; Grande rieuse (Large Laughing Woman), 1891; Bambino ebreo (Jewish Boy), c. 1892–93; Bookmaker, c. ...

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General Samuel Cooper - Adjutant and Inspector General of the CSA
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O Portal da História - Biografia: Samuel Cooper (1609-1672)
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