HENRY PIERCE BONE, signed and dated 1837 on the counter-enamel

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HENRY PIERCE BONE, signed and dated 1837 on the counter-enamel

Lord Byron (1788-1824) with short curly dark hair, half-length slightly to the left, his right hand clasping his bordeaux-red velvet cloak, wearing a gold-edged white silk coat and an open white shirt with broad collar; cloudy sky background; enamel on copper, rectangular -- 140 x 115 mm, gilt-metal mounted within a carved gilt-wood frame

来源

Sir John Neeld, Grittleton House
Frost & Reed, July 1945, nr 2645

展览

London, Royal Academy, 1838, nr 689

拍品专文

The counter-enamel is inscribed: "Lord Byron London Feb.y 1837. Painted by Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent & Princess Victoria. From the Original by W. E. West, in the possession of Joseph Neeld Esq. M.P. & c."
The original painting by West on which this enamel is based is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery; another version of it belonged to the Hon. Douglas Kinnaird, Byron's tutor, and was given to the Hannover School.