Lot 1062
1062
HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A.
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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A.

Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer, née Poyntz (1737-1814), seated on a red draped chair, one hand raised to her cheek, in a gold-trimmed white dress and gauze head scarf over her powdered hair dressed in ringlets, stormy sky background

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855), AFTER SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, P.R.A.
Margaret Georgiana, Countess Spencer, née Poyntz (1737-1814), seated on a red draped chair, one hand raised to her cheek, in a gold-trimmed white dress and gauze head scarf over her powdered hair dressed in ringlets, stormy sky background
signed, dated and fully inscribed on the counter-enamel 'Georgiana daughter of the Rt. Honble. Stephen Poyntz of Midgham, Co: Berks: wife of John 1st Earl Spencer. nat:1738. ob:1814 London. Jany. 1833. Painted by Henry Pierce Bone, Enamel Painter to Her Majesty, & their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent & Princess Victoria after the original by Sr. Joshua Reynolds in the possession of the Honble. Wm. Ponsonby'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 5 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. (146 x 116 mm.), gilt-metal mount
Provenance
Commissioned by George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834) and thence by descent.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1833, no. 508.
London, South Kensington Museum, Special Exhibition of Portrait Miniatures, June 1865, no. 933 (lent by the Earl Spencer).
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Lot Essay

The original portrait of Georgiana, Countess Spencer, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. is in the Spencer Collection at Althorp.
Another version of the present miniature was sold by the executors of Henry Pierce Bone's estate, Christie's, London, 14 March 1856, lot 153 (51 gns. to Liebeneheim).

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