COOPER, ALEXANDER [SSNE 1337]
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Alexander Cooper (f.1630-1660) was a British miniature painter/artist who withdrew to Amsterdam and to the court of Queen Kristina of Sweden. He arrived in Sweden in c.1650 and left in 1660 suggesting that he was a refugee from Cromwell. One of his minatures can be seen in Skokloster Slott (Elsa Brahe 1629-1658), no 99 in the Silver. He wrote a supplication to Carl Gustaf (later Karl X) in January 1653 from Stockholm
DNB; Swedish Riksarkiv, Carl Gustaf's Arkiv i Stegeborgssamlingen, Alexander Cooper, Supplikant, Stockholm, January 1653.
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- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, AMSTERDAM
- Departed 1652-12-31
- Capacity ARTIST, REFUGEE, purpose REFUGEE, MISC.
- SWEDEN, ROYAL COURT
- Departed 1660-12-31
- Capacity ARTIST, REFUGEE?, purpose ROYAL SERVANT, ARTIST, REFUGEE?