The Hon. Mrs Thomas Hope, full face in red velvet dress with gold-bordered white sleeves and hem, twisted gold sash and wearing a double strand gold necklace set with memorial intaglios, gold band in her dressed upswept brown hair, holding a yellow cashmere stole in her raised right hand, standing on a staircase with balustrade, a black dog at her feet; landscape, pillar and urn background

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HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
The Hon. Mrs Thomas Hope, full face in red velvet dress with gold-bordered white sleeves and hem, twisted gold sash and wearing a double strand gold necklace set with memorial intaglios, gold band in her dressed upswept brown hair, holding a yellow cashmere stole in her raised right hand, standing on a staircase with balustrade, a black dog at her feet; landscape, pillar and urn background
signed and dated on the obverse 'HBone 1813' (lower right) and in full on the counter-enamel 'The Hon:^.^.^. M:^.^. Hope. London Feb:^. 1813 Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel Painter in Ordinary to His Majesty, and Enamel Painter to His R. H. the Prince Regent after the Original by G. Dawe A.R.A.'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 11 11/16 x 7¾ in. (298 x 197 mm.), gilt-metal frame

Provenance

S. Bulgari Collection, Rome.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1813, no. 577.

Lot Essay

Louisa, fifth daughter of the 1st Baron Decies, married first in 1806 Thomas Hope of Deepede (died 1831) and secondly in 1832 William, Viscount Beresford.
George Dawe's oil on canvas portrait was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1812.

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