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John Aubrey might have made an excellent literary agent. When Charles II was restored, Aubrey told Thomas Hobbes to come down to London straight away to get his portrait painted. It was a successful bid for patronage. Aubrey correctly calculated that Hobbes would meet the King at the studio of Samuel Cooper, 'the prince' of miniaturists. Cooper painted two watercolour miniatures, 'as like as art could afford'. One the King took away for his 'closet' at Whitehall Palace, and another was not finished.
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