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A self-portrait
c.1620-5RCIN 420029
The dynamism of the sitter's pose and its deliberately unfinished state marks a break with the more static, formalised miniatures of the Jacobean period. Peter Oliver was employed by Charles I to produce miniature copies of the King's favourite old master paintings, which were kept in special locking cases in the King's Closet at Whitehall.
Cat. 9