Lot 11
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HENRY PIERCE BONE (1779-1855)
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HENRY PIERCE BONE (1779-1855)

James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, facing right in gilt-studded armour and white lawn collar, black skull cap in his curling fair hair, small beard and moustache

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (1779-1855)
James Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose, facing right in gilt-studded armour and white lawn collar, black skull cap in his curling fair hair, small beard and moustache
signed and dated in full on the counter-enamel 'July 1838 James Graham 1st Marquis of Montrose London. Jany. 1839. Painted for J. P. Ord Esq by Henry Pierce Bone. Enamel Painter to the Queen Dowager & her R.H. the Duchess of Kent. The Original by Vandyck, in the Collection of the Duke of Montrose Buchanan Castle N. B.'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 5 1/8 x 4 1/16 in. (130 x 104 mm.), gilt-wood plaster frame with foliate border
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James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650), Scottish soldier and royalist. In 1644, he was appointed lieutenant general in Scotland and commissioned to reconquer the country. He managed to enter Glasgow and summon a parliament, but he was eventually defeated in a surprise attack and escaped abroad. On his return in 1650, he was betrayed, captured and hanged by the Presbyterians in Edinburgh.

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