VARIOUS PROPERTIES
HORACE HONE (1754-1825)
Mrs Elizabeth Prentice, in profile to the left, in décolleté white dress and yellow stole, pearl set gold brooch on her left sleeve, upswept dark brown curling hair
Details
HORACE HONE (1754-1825)
Mrs Elizabeth Prentice, in profile to the left, in décolleté white dress and yellow stole, pearl set gold brooch on her left sleeve, upswept dark brown curling hair
signed with monogram and dated on the obverse 'HH 1807' (lower left) and in full on the counter-enamel '-Elizabeth- The Wife of Tho.. Prentice Esq. -of Dublin- Horace Hone A.R.A. - Pinx.. in London 1807'
enamel on copper
oval, 4 3/16 in. (106 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Mrs Elizabeth Prentice, in profile to the left, in décolleté white dress and yellow stole, pearl set gold brooch on her left sleeve, upswept dark brown curling hair
signed with monogram and dated on the obverse 'HH 1807' (lower left) and in full on the counter-enamel '-Elizabeth- The Wife of Tho.. Prentice Esq. -of Dublin- Horace Hone A.R.A. - Pinx.. in London 1807'
enamel on copper
oval, 4 3/16 in. (106 mm.) high, gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Edward Grosvenor Paine
Literature
D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, pp. 67, 335 as ('one of his finest and largest enamels'), illustrated II, pl. 168, no. 433.
D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 231 ('It is rare to find such a large enamel by Hone, and this is of exceptionally fine quality'), illustrated pl. 55G.
D. Foskett, Miniatures Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 231, illustrated pl. 55G.
D. Foskett, Collecting Miniatures, Woodbridge, 1979, p. 231 ('It is rare to find such a large enamel by Hone, and this is of exceptionally fine quality'), illustrated pl. 55G.
D. Foskett, Miniatures Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 231, illustrated pl. 55G.
Exhibited
Edinburgh, The Arts Council Gallery, British Portrait Miniatures, 1965, no. 403.