HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/56 - 1825/27)

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HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/56 - 1825/27)
Frederica, Duchess of York (1767-1820), in white lace-bordered dress, peach sash tied around waist, pearls on her sleeve, around her neck and adorning her powdered, upswept hair also decorated with peach ribbon
signed with monogram and dated 'HH 1804' (lower right)
signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel 'HHone A.R.A Pinx^t 1804' and 'Frederica - Charlotte - - Ulrica - Catarina. Dutchess [sic] of York. Born may 7. 1767. This Enamel copy'd from a miniature in Water Colours which was painted in 1792 by HHone A.R.A. from Her Roy^l High^s The Duch^s of York, for H.R.H. The Prince of Wales'
enamel on copper
oval, 3¼ in. (82 mm.) high

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Lot Essay

Frederica, Duchess of York, was the only daughter of Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, later King Frederick William II and his wife Elizabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg. On 29 September 1791 she married, at Charlottenburg Castle, Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of King George III and Queen Charlotte. A second wedding took place at Buckingham Palace on 23 November of the same year.
A similar enamel by Hone to the present lot, signed and dated 1792, is in the British Royal Collection (see R. Walker, The Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Cambridge, 1992, p. 115, no. 228) and it is thought to have been painted for the Prince of Wales.

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