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Title Portrait of the Rev. Dr Cox Macro
Collection Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Artist Mieris, Frans van (Dutch painter, writer, and numismatist, 1689-1763)
Tillemans, Peter (Flemish painter and draftsman, 1684-1734, active in Great Britain)
Date Earliest probably about 1703
Date Latest probably about 1715
Description The Suffolk antiquary Cox Macro (1683-1767) studied medicine at Cambridge and Leiden Universities. He was a keen collector and an important patron of the Flemish artist Peter Tillemans. This small oval portrait on copper shows Macro in a full early eighteenth-century wig and was probably painted in Leiden by Frans van Mieris around 1703. However, documentary evidence (see notes for this record) suggests that the face was repainted by Tillemans, probably around 1716, when the sitter also appeared in Tillemans's well-known painting The Artist's Studio. Frans van Mieris came from a family of successful painters that included his father, Willem, and grandfather, also called Frans. Dr Macro's extensive collection of paintings, including several works by Tillemans, was inherited through marriage by John Patteson, in 1781. Today, the heart of that collection, including this work, forms part of the Patteson Collection at Norwich Castle Museum.
Current Accession Number NWHCM:1991.1.38:F
Former Accession Number 38.1.991; 38.L1984.1
Subject portrait (Macro, Rev. Dr Cox)
Measurements 11.1 x 8.5 cm
Material oil on metal (copper)
Rights Owner Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
 

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