id: 127231 accession number: 1949.548 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.548 updated: 2025-06-21 11:15:20.788000 Portrait of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1660. Samuel Cooper (British, 1608/09–1672). Watercolor on vellum in a gilt metal frame; framed: 7.3 x 6.3 cm (2 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.); sight: 6.7 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection, 1949.548 title: Portrait of Thomas Hobbes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1660 creation date earliest: 1655 creation date latest: 1665 current location: creditline: The Edward B. Greene Collection copyright: --- culture: England, 17th century technique: watercolor on vellum in a gilt metal frame department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - British before 1800 type: Portrait Miniature find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Samuel Cooper (British, 1608/09–1672) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 7.3 x 6.3 cm (2 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Sight: 6.7 x 5.8 cm (2 5/8 x 2 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The World of Miniature Painting opening date: 1953-09-20T04:00:00 The World of Miniature Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 20-November 10, 1953). title: Samuel Cooper and His Contemporaries opening date: 1974-02-06T04:00:00 Samuel Cooper and His Contemporaries. National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (February 6-May 12, 1974). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America opening date: 1993-03-26T04:00:00 Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993). title: Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives opening date: 2013-11-10T00:00:00 Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 202), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 22, 2008 - January 5, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2008-09-22T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Samuel Cooper (1608/09-1672), promised by the artist to John Aubrey (1626–1697, England) but never changed hands; by inheritance to his wife, Christiana Cooper date: c. 1660-72 footnotes: citations: Christiana Cooper (née Turner, 1623–1693) date: 1672-c.1693 footnotes: citations: William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (1748–1811) date: By 1970- footnotes: citations: (Sale: Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 1932). date: March 1932 footnotes: citations: (Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Paris, France, sold to Edward B. Greene) date: footnotes: citations: Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1949 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1949- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fagan, Louis. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Engraved Works of William Faithorne. London: B. Quaritch, 1888. page number: pp. 41–42, no. 112 url: Foster, J. J. A List, Alphabetically Arranged, of Works of English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century, With a Description of the Same, Names of the Owners and Remarks. Supplementary to Samuel Cooper & the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century. London: Dickinsons, 1914. page number: p. 44 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Portrait Miniatures: The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 25, no. 4; Reproduced: plate XXIII url: https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n49 Comstock, Helen. "The Edward B. Greene Collection on Miniatures." The Connoisseur 128 (October 1951): 138-140. page number: Mentioned: p. 139 url: Piper, David. The English Face. London, United Kingdom: Thames and Hudson, 1957. page number: Reproduced: p. 118, fig. 53 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 464 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n85 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n151 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 127 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n151 Foskett, Daphne, and Samuel Cooper. Samuel Cooper and His Contemporaries. London. National Portrait Gallery. Catalogues. 1973-1974. London: H.M. Stationery Off.; distributed by Pendragon House, Palo Alto, 1974. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 83 url: Foskett, Daphne. Samuel Cooper, 1609-1672. London, United Kingdom: Faber, 1974. page number: Reproduced: p. 23, 43, 60, np. 55, fig. 55 url: Houfe, Simon. "Prince of Limners." The Antique Collector 45, no. 3 (May 1974): 62-66. page number: Mentioned: p. 33; reproduced: p. 66 url: Reynolds, Graham. Samuel Cooper's Pocket-Book. [Victoria and Albert Museum Brochures, 1972-75]. London, United Kingdom: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975. page number: Reproduced: p. 5, pl. 7 url: Gaunt, William. Court Painting in England from Tudor to Victorian Times. London, United Kingdom: Constable, 1980. page number: Reproduced: p. 131 url: Murdoch, John. The English Miniature. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 109 url: Murdoch, John. The English Miniature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. page number: url: Norwich, John Julius. Britain's Heritage. London, United Kingdom: Granada, 1983. page number: Reproduced: p. 183 url: Hughes, Clair, and Haruhiko Fujii. English portraits. Tōkyō, Japan: Eihōsha, 1986. page number: Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 8 url: Reynolds, Graham. English Portrait Miniatures. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 59-60 url: Wendorf, Richard. The Elements of Life: Biography and Portrait-Painting in Stuart and Georgian England. Oxford, United Kingdom: Clarendon Press, 1990. page number: Reproduced: pl. 38 url: Turner, Evan H. Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 116 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Alan Chong. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: p. 281 url: Bredekamp, Horst. Thomas Hobbes visuelle Strategien: der Leviathan: Urbild des modernen Staates ; Werkillustrationen und Portraits. Berlin, Germany: Akad.-Verl, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 186 url: Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 86 url: Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. page number: Cat.no. 17, pp. 94-97 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 196-197 url: "August." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 65, no. 2 (2025): 18. page number: Reproduced: p. 18. url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM-2025-02 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.548/1949.548_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.548/1949.548_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1949.548/1949.548_full.tif