Lot Essay
A miniature of Lord Nelson by Henry Bone, dated 1826, after Abbott was lent by Jeffrey Whitehead to the Burlington Fine Arts Committee Miniature Exhibition in 1889 and also the Guelph exhibition in 1891.
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Admiral Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), facing left in rear-admiral's undress, blue coat with gold buttons and gold epaulettes, white trousers and waistcoat, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the breast star of red sash of the Order of the Bath and a Naval Gold medal suspended on a blue-bordered white ribbon about his neck, powdered hair
Details
HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
Admiral Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), facing left in rear-admiral's undress, blue coat with gold buttons and gold epaulettes, white trousers and waistcoat, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the breast star of red sash of the Order of the Bath and a Naval Gold medal suspended on a blue-bordered white ribbon about his neck, powdered hair
signed on the obverse 'HBone' (lower left) and signed, inscribed and dated in full on the counter-enamel 'Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Duke of Bronté, &c&c&c London Aug.t 1826 Painted by Henry Bone R. A. Enamel=painter to His Majesty & Enl. painter to His R. H. the Duke of York &c &c After the Original by Abbott in the possession of Jeffrey Wyattville RA. Esq.'
enamel on copper
rectangular, 5½ x 4½ in. (140 x 115 mm.), gilt-metal frame
Admiral Viscount Nelson (1758-1805), facing left in rear-admiral's undress, blue coat with gold buttons and gold epaulettes, white trousers and waistcoat, frilled cravat and black stock, wearing the breast star of red sash of the Order of the Bath and a Naval Gold medal suspended on a blue-bordered white ribbon about his neck, powdered hair
signed on the obverse 'HBone' (lower left) and signed, inscribed and dated in full on the counter-enamel 'Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Duke of Bronté, &c&c&c London Aug.
enamel on copper
rectangular, 5½ x 4½ in. (140 x 115 mm.), gilt-metal frame
Provenance
Francis Chalmers, Edinburgh: (+) Sotheby's, London, 20 January 1946, lot 11.
Exhibited
Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1943.
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