Alexander Cooper
Charles X, King of Sweden by Alexander Cooper, Livrustkammaren
, 1655–1660Alexander Cooper (11 December 1609[1] – 1660) was an English Baroque miniature painter.[2]
Biography
Cooper was born in London, the elder brother of the painter Samuel Cooper. He learned painting from Peter Oliver (painter) and was active in London from 1633 to 1642, whereupon he traveled to The Hague.[3] He is registered there as a member of The Hague Guild of Saint Luke from 1644 – 1646.[3] After a short stay in Amsterdam, he travelled to
Christina of Sweden.[3][4] According to Houbraken he was considered the best portrait miniaturist in watercolors of his time.[4] He succeeded David Beck
as official court painter when Beck returned to The Hague.
His Swedish documents declare that he was
Jewish, and that his full name was Abraham Alexander Cooper. He had previously been residing in the United Provinces, but on reaching Sweden entered the service of Christina, and continued to be her miniature painter until 1654, when she resigned the crown. Two years later, Cooper was in Denmark, carrying out some commissions for Christian IV of Denmark but in 1657 was back again in Stockholm, where he died in the early part of 1660, aged fifty.[5]
His works are of great rarity, and the chief are a series representing
He is probably the same painter as Ioannes Coepers of England well-known at the English court in Cornelis de Bie's book of painters called Het Gulden Cabinet.
References
- ^ The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. "Alexander Cooper". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ^ Cust, Lionel (1887). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 110.
- ^ RKD
- ^ Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Williamson, George Charles (1911). "Cooper, Alexander". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 78–79.
- ^ Williamson 1911.
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