LOT DETAILS
Materials:
enamel
Measurements:
Markings:
signed lower left: HBone [sic] 1801.;, further signed and inscribed on the verso: The / R t Hon ble Lady Eliz Wyndham / Countess of Carnarvon & her eldest son Henry Lord / Porchester - / Painted Jan r 1801 by Henry Bone / Enamel Painter to His Royal Highness / the Prince of Wales after a picture by the late S ir Joshua Reynolds P.R.A. / painted in 1776
Condition:
held in a fine gilt-wood frame, elaborately decorated with foliage and an Earl's coronet
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1801, no. 727
Literature:
Smith,. J.T. Nollekens and his Times, 2 vols, London 1828;. The Apollo Magazine , November 1954, p. 153;. R. Walker,. 'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings', The Walpole Society , 1999, p. 318, no. 91;. D. Mannings,. Sir Joshua Reynolds, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings , Yale 2000, p. 251, no. 881b
Provenance:
By descent in the sitter's family;. The Rev. Robert Herbert, by 1828;. With Leo Schidlof, by 1954;. Acquired by the great-grandfather of the present owner soon after