HENRY BONE (BRITISH, 1755-1834) AFTER CORREGGIO
Portrait miniature of Caesar Borgia, Duke of Valentinois (1475-1507), in robes and a hat
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Caesar Borghia / Painted by Henry Bone A.R.A. / Enamel Painter to HRH The / Prince of Wales, after the Original / Picture by Corregio in the Collection / of Tho. Hope Esq. / London / October 1805.’ (on the counter-enamel)
enamel on copper
90mm diameter
in a gilt-metal mount
| Estimate: |
£800 - £1,200
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Hammer price:
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£1,200 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Provenance
Sotheby’s, London, 27 March 194, lot 78 (part lot), acquired by Mikel Papier, thence by descent.
Literature
R. Walker, ‘Henry Bone’s Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait
Gallery’, The Walpole Society, LXI, p. 335, no. 340 and p. 316, no.
65.
Footnote
Another version of the present miniature was sold Christie’s, London, 3 June 2015, lot 449 (part lot).
Condition report
Very minor flecks of staining, upper right to borders, generally sound. No sign of fluorescence under ultraviolet, unexamined out of frame.
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