HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER SIR PETER LELY (BRITISH, 1618-1680)

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER SIR PETER LELY (BRITISH, 1618-1680)
James II and VII (1633-1701), King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1685-1688, in Garter robes
Signed, dated and inscribed in full on the counter-enamel 'James 2nd / May 1852, Painted by / Henry Pierce Bone, after Lely / in the Collection of George / Vansittart Esq.re Bisham / Abbey.'
Enamel on copper
Oval, 121 mm. high, foliate gilt-metal mount

Provenance

Property of the late K. E. Houston Esq., no. 253; Sotheby's, London, 15 January 1968, lot 52.
Mrs A. I. Peters; Sotheby's, London, 25 November 1974, lot 46.
Gorringes, Bexhill-on-Sea, 7 December 2004, lot 732.
With Claudia Hill, Ellison Fine Art by 16 December 2004.

Literature

R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait Gallery'; The Walpole Society, 1999, LXI, p. 332.

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Lot Essay

The portrait of James II by Lely from the collection of George Vansittart at Bisham Abbey was sold Christie's, London, 30 July 1982, lot 7. A portrait by Lely and studio which relates to the present miniature is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405673).
Two further miniatures by Henry Pierce Bone after Lely's portrait of James II in the collection of George Vansittart at Bisham Abbey are known. These include a rectangular version by Henry Bone, signed and dated June 1831, now in the Royal Collection (RCIN 422387) and a smaller, oval, head and shoulders version by Henry Pierce Bone, dated June 1845 was sold Christie's, London, 24 June 1975, lot 68. A copy by William Bone, signed and dated 1833, was sold Sotheby's, London, 18 October 1971, lot 69 (see V. Remington, Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London 2010, I, p. 75). The corresponding preparatory drawing by Henry Bone, dated April 1831, is in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. NPG D17191).

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