Portrait minaiture of an unknown man, perhaps Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 2nd Earl of Shaftesbury, in a gilt locket. Watercolour on vellum, by Samuel Cooper, 1666-1670. Oval gilt copper locket with wire spirals, supplied by E J Shewry, 1968.

Portrait, turned to right and looking to front. Features in a firm free hatch of sanguine and brown shadowed with blue-grey, the flesh blended with white over a creamy carnation; the hair in brown washes, hatched with darker colour with much pale gouache heightening; the costume in gouache washes, hatched and heightened with metallic gold and silver decoration; plain opaque brown wash background, blending to the right into a dark sky and clouds in various grey washes; on vellum put down on a leaf from a table-book.

Portrait miniature of a man with long hair, turned to the right.

Provenance: Notionally (but see below) in the possession of the Earls of Shaftesbury at St Giles near Cranborne, Dorset; sold to Samuel Addington c.1860, and by him to J Heywood Hawkins c.1865; C HT Hawkins, his sale, Christie's 10-17 May 1904, lot 916 (as Duke of Monmouth 'in the manner of Cooper but signed P.c.') , bt Gall, 71 gns, and sold to J Pierpont Morgan. Certainly at his sale, Christie's 24 June 1935, lot 25 (the entry copied from Williamson 1906-8), bt Spink, 735 gns, on behalf of Queen Mary who gave it to George V for the Royal Collection at Windsor; sold 1968 by private treaty with the Museum.

P.66-1968