HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855)
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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855)

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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855)
Charles William Bury, 2nd Earl of Charleville (1801-1851) seated in red cloak before a curtain
Signed, dated and inscribed in full on the counter-enamel 'Charles William Lord Tullamoore [sic] / London March 1835. Painted from Life / By Henry Pierce Bone, Enamel Painter to / her Majesty & their Royal Highnesses the / Duchess of Kent & Princess Victoria.' Inscribed separately 'April 1834'
Enamel on copper
Rectangular, 115 x 93 mm., gilt-metal frame
Provenance
The Property of Walter B. Jowett, Esq.; Christie's, London, 22 May 1973, lot 90 (as 127 mm. high).
Alvin J. Huss (1904-1998) Collection, Evanston, Ill.; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1985, lot 174 (erroneously illustrated as lot 177).
Mellors & Kirk, Nottingham, 30 March 2000, lot 179.
With Claudia Hill, Ellison Fine Art, by 23 December 2002.
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Lot Essay

The sitter was styled Lord Tullamore between 1806 and 1835. He was the son of Charles Bury, 1st Earl of Charleville (1764-1835) and Catherine Maria Dawson (1762-1851). In 1821 he married Harriet Charlotte Beaujolais Campbell (1801-1848) in Florence. Charleville's family seat was Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland, which was designed by Francis Johnston between 1806 and 1812 and is an important surviving example of Gothic revival architecture in Ireland. In 1835, the year the present miniature was painted, the sitter succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Charleville and held the office of Lord of the Bedchamber to King William IV. Between 1838 and 1851 he held the office of Representative Peer, Ireland. He is depicted in Sir George Hayter's The House of Commons, 1833 in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. NPG 54).

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