HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A.

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER JOHN DOWNMAN, A.R.A.
Lady Anne Horatia Seymour, née Waldegrave (1762-1801), in white dress, fichu, scarf in her powdered curling hair; sky background
enamel
oval, 2 1/8 in. (54 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame, the reverse engraved 'Lady Horatia Waldegrave 1762-1801. wife of Lord Hugh Seymour. Copied by Henry Pierce Bone. from John Downman.'

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Lot Essay

The present miniature derives from a portrait by John Downman, R.A. in the Spencer Collection at Althorp which was exhibited London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, 1889, Case XXXII, no. 36, as by Richard Cosway (lent by Hon. R. Spencer).

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