Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford, standing in black velvet doublet, trousers and cloak, large white lawn collar with tassels, long curling fair hair, pointed beard and moustache; pillar, gold-embroidered red draped curtain and landscape beyond

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HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
Francis, 4th Earl of Bedford, standing in black velvet doublet, trousers and cloak, large white lawn collar with tassels, long curling fair hair, pointed beard and moustache; pillar, gold-embroidered red draped curtain and landscape beyond
signed on the obverse 'HBone' (lower left) and signed and dated in full on the counter-enamel 'Francis Earl of Bedford 1636. (Painted for James Pickering Ord Esqr.) London 1827 Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel painter to His Majesty, and Enl. painter to His late R.H. the Duke of York &c &c After Vandyke in the possession of the Duke of Bedford - Woburn = Abbey Bedfordshire'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 7 7/16 x 5 7/8 in. (189 x 149 mm.), gilt-plaster foliate mount within wooden frame

Literature

R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings', The Walpole Society, LX, 1999, p. 314, no. 40.

Exhibited

Possibly London, Royal Academy, 1838, no. 670.

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Lot Essay

Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford (1588-1641), drained the Fens of Cambridge, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Northamptonshire the so-called Bedford Level. He married Catharine Brydges (d. 1656/57), daughter and co-heir of 3rd Baron Chandos of Sudeley and had issue.

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