A Pair of Antique Portrait Miniatures

English, oil on mahogany panel with beveled edge, 19th century painted after a pair of 17th-century portraits, unsigned, presented in ebonized frames within gilt frames with spandrels with composition ornament in the Neoclassical style, the verso of each retaining a hand-written label reading "These pictures are very valuable / They are painted by Cooper / of Charles 2nd Nell Gwynn in / the time of Cromwell he also / painted a portrait of Cromwell / now in London."

Panel 4 7/8 x 3 3/4 in. (each); Frame dimensions 11 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (each)

From the Estate of the late Cornelia "Miki" Ellis Jaeger, Cary, North Carolina

Both with some paint lifting and retouch visible under UV light.