Henry Carey, Second Earl of Monmouth

Henry Carey, Second Earl of Monmouth (1596 - 1661).

Miniature by Samuel Cooper (1608? - 1672).

 in a Silver Filigree Frame.

1649.

Painted on Vellum on a card support.

61 x 52 mm

Metropolitan Museum New York.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435941

 

Henry Carey (1596–1661), second earl of Monmouth, had little taste for public affairs and spent most of his time in retirement translating Italian and French authors. 

Burke's Peerage quotes Horace Walpole's observation: "We have scarce anything of his own composition, and are as little acquainted with his character as with his genius." 

Of his nine children, seven were daughters; his second son died of smallpox in 1641 and his eldest, Lionel, fighting for the cause of Charles I at Marston Moor in 1644.

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Another Miniature by Samuel Cooper in a filigree Frame.

Dated 1655

Reeman Dansie, Auctioneers Lot 1003, 30 June 2021.

https://www.reemandansie.com/auction/lot/1003-samuel-cooper-1609-1672-miniature-portrait-on-ivory-dated-1655-in-silver-gilt-filigree-frame/?lot=92992&sd=1

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Willem V Stadtholder, Prince of Orange (1748 - 1806).

 in a Silver Filigree Frame.

I suspect the frame might be earlier.

This photograph of  the miniature enamel painting is available (for an extortionate price) on three separate photo library websites - none of them give the source or size.

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See my previous posts -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/06/17th18th-century-agate-cameo-of.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/05/two-related-caskets-with-enamel-plaques.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-near-pair-of-italian-reliefs-in.html

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/02/18th-century-silver-filigree-miniature.html

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