Lot 8
8
HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
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HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)

John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk and 8th Earl of Berkshire (1776-1820), seated in a brown upholstered chair, facing right in maroon velvet coat and waistcoat and frilled cravat, green curtain background

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HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk and 8th Earl of Berkshire (1776-1820), seated in a brown upholstered chair, facing right in maroon velvet coat and waistcoat and frilled cravat, green curtain background
signed on the obverse 'HBone' (mid-left) and signed and dated in full on the counter-enamel 'Decr. & 5 John Howard, Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire - London Augst. 1819- Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel=painter in Ordinary to his Majesty & Enamel=painter To H.R.H. The Prince Regent after the Original by Sir Thomas Lawrence R.A. &c &c'
enamel on copper
oval, 5¼ in. (134 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Christie's, London, 6 July 1965, lot 34.
Literature
R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings', The Walpole Society, LX, 1999, p. 346, no. 500.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1819, no. 502.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk and 9th Earl of Berkshire, served as a General in the American War of Independence. He married Julia (d. 1819), daughter of John Gaskarth of Penrith in 1774 and had issue.
Another version of this enamel, signed and dated 1820, was sold in the Bone Collection, 1832, lot 62...

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