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ALEXANDER COOPER (d. i66o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 79 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:COOPER (d. i66o)  , See also:English See also:miniature painter . His See also:works are of See also:great rarity, and the See also:chief are a See also:series representing the See also:king and See also:queen of Bohemia and their See also:children, in the See also:possession of the See also:German See also:emperor; some very remarkable portraits belonging to the queen of See also:Holland, and others in the possession of the king of See also:Sweden and in various See also:Swedish galleries . He was the See also:brother of See also:Samuel See also:Cooper, but whether See also:senior or junior to him is not known, although, according to certain Swedish authorities, he is stated, upon very slight See also:evidence, to have been See also:born in 16o5, four years before his more famous brother . He came to Sweden in 1646, and the Swedish documents declare that he was a See also:Jew, and that his full name was See also:Abraham See also:Alexander Cooper . He had previously been residing in Holland, but on reaching Sweden entered the service of Queen See also:Christina, and continued to be her miniature painter until 1654, when she resigned the See also:crown . Two years later, Cooper was in See also:Denmark, carrying out some commissions for See also:Christian IV., but The See also:British colonies . in 1657 was back again in See also:Stockholm, where he died in the See also:early See also:part of 166o . The date of his See also:birth is not known, but he is believed to have been born in See also:London . For full See also:information regarding his career, and for various documents bearing his See also:signature, see The See also:History of Portrait Miniatures, by G . C . See also:Williamson, See also:chap. vi. See also:page 78, and an See also:article in the Nineteenth See also:Century for See also:October 1905 . (G .

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