LOT DETAILS

Materials:

enamel plaque

Size Notes:

rectangular

Markings:

Signed and dated H Bone, 1811 on the obverse (on the urn, lower left) and signed, dated and inscribed in full on the counter-enamel 'painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel painter in Ordinary to His Majesty and Enamel painter to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, after the Original by Titian in the Collection of the Rt: Honble: Lord Kinnaird &c &c &c.____ This Picture the most celebrated amongst the Bacchanalian Subjects of Titian (when patronis'd by Alphonso Duke of Ferrara) was ultimately brought to this Country from the Villa Aldobrandini in Rome in 1806, from whence it was imported by Willm. Buchanan Esq.____ Size of the Original 6 feet 2 inches, by 5 ---- 10 ---- This Enamel picture w[as] began July 30th 1808 and finish'd March 1811. ___ (HB. Elected a Royal Academician Feby. 11th 1811)'

Exhibited:

Truro, Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1951, John Opie and Henry Bone: an exhibition of paintings and miniatures organised by the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Addenda no. 1 (lent by Captain E. B. Woollett). London, National Gallery, 1969, exhibited alongside the original by Titian.

Literature:

J. P. Neale, Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen: in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, 1826, III, The Honourable Anne Rushout, listed in the Library, South Side. H. Walpole, J. Dallaway and G. Vertue, Anecdotes of Painting in England, 1828, III, p. 291. Jones, Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, etc. of Noblemen and Gentlemen, 1829, Wanstead Grove, Essex, The Hon. Anne Rushout, listed in the Library, South Side. 'Annual Biography and Obituary. Memoirs of Celebrated Persons who have died in 1834-1835', 1836, XX, p. 45. A. Essex, 'Some Account of the Art of Enamel Painting', The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1837, X, p. 453. The Times, 15 December 1879, p. 10, column c. J. J. Rogers, 'Notice of Henry Bone, RA, and his works, together with those of his son, Henry Pierce Bone, and of other members of the family', Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1880, VI, no. XXII, p. 292. W. H. Tregellas, Cornish worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, London, 1884, I, p. 164. J. L. Propert, A History of Miniature Art, London, 1887, p. 121. G. C. Williamson, Portrait Miniatures, London, 1897, p. 112. J. J. Foster, British Miniature Painters and their Works, London, 1898, p. 63. J. J. Foster, Miniature Painters British and Foreign, London, 1903, II, p. 106. G. C. Williamson, The History of Portrait Miniatures 1531-1860, London, 1904, I, p. 66. D. Heath, Miniatures, London, 1905, p. 289. H. Clouzot, Dictionnaire des miniaturistes sur émail, Paris, 1924, pp. 27 and 30. S. Hand, Signed Miniatures, London, 1925, p. 13. The Memoirs of Susan Sibbald (1783-1812), ed. F. P. Hette, London, 1926, p. 141. J. J. Foster, A Dictionary of Painters of Miniatures (1525-1850), London, 1926, pp. 27-28. J. Nachemsohn, Signed Enamel Miniatures of the XVIIth, XVIIIth & XIXth Centuries, London, 1926, p. 35. B. Long, British Miniaturists, London, 1929, p. 37. G. Reynolds, English Portrait Miniatures, Cambridge, 1952, p. 151. C. Gould, The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Venetian School, London, 1959, p. 104. L. R. Schidlof, The Miniature in Europe, Graz, 1964, I, p. 93. The Diary of Joseph Farington 1793-1821, ed. K. Garlick, A. Macintyre and K. Cave, Yale, 1978-1989, XI, pp. 3854 (15 January 1811), 3922 (1 May 1811) and 3932 (17 May 1811). D. Foskett, British Portrait Miniatures, London, 1968, p. 167. D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, London, 1972, I, p. 171. M. Blaker, 'Painting Miniatures In Enamel', The Artist, January 1974, vol. 86, no. 5, p. 137. D. Foskett, Miniatures Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 195. E. Speel, Dictionary of Enamelling, Aldershot, 1998, p. 13. R. Walker, 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait Gallery', The Walpole Society, 1999, LXI, pp. 305-308, 359, no. 676, the preparatory drawing illustrated fig. 188. S. Coffin and B. Hofstetter, The Gilbert Collection. Portrait Miniatures in Enamel, London, 2000, p. 9. Exhibition catalogue Capolavori in smalto e avorio, Milan, Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, 2004-2005, p. 33 footnote 49. E. Speel, Painted Enamels: An Illustrated Survey, 1500-1920, Aldershot, 2008, p. 114 (fig. 28 illustrating the preparatory drawing). C. Arturi and F. R. Phillips, The Arturi Phillips Collection. A Catalogue of Portrait Miniatures dating from 1588 to 2004, 2010, p. 272. S. Duffy and C. M. Vogtherr, Miniatures in the Wallace Collection, London, 2010, p. 158. H. Williams, Enamels of the World 1700-2000, London, 2010, p. 272. R. Walker 'Henry Bone', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Online edition, 2004-2013, p. 2.

Provenance:

Purchased by George Bowles (d. 1817) of The Grove, Wanstead, from the artist for 2,200 guineas between 15 January and 1 May 1811. Bequeathed to his niece, The Hon. Anne Rushout (d. unmarried 1849), to whom 'I give to my said Niece Anne Rushout All my Enamel Pictures Painted by Bone' (codicil dated 14 March 1817). Bequeathed to her nephew Sir Charles Rushout Rushout, 2nd Bt. (1809-1869) of Sezincot House, Gloucestershire and by descent to his son. Sir Charles Fitzgerald Rushout, 3rd Bt. (1840-1879); Phillips & Son, London, Valuable Property Removed from Sezincot House, Gloucestershire by Order of the Executors of Sir Charles Rushout, Bart, 9 December 1879, lot 846 (180 gns, possibly to Colonel Arbuthnot). The late Christopher Beckett Denison, Esq. of Upper Grosvenor Street; Christie's, London, Friday 26 June (thirteenth day), 1885, lot 1840 (110 gns, as 'From the Rushout and Colonel Arbuthnot's Collections'). With Captain E. B. Woollett, in 1951. Purchased from him by A. A. Raeburn, New York. Bequeathed to his widow, Marjorie, later Mrs James A. Mitchell, New York. Purchased by the National Gallery for $8,000 in 1971. Christie's, London, 20 February 1973, lot 123 (5,250 gns. to Nyman). Sotheby's, London, 6 November 1986, lot 124.