Regency Portraits Catalogue
Henry Bone (1755-1834), Enamel painter
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Enamel Painter to George III, George IV and William IV.
'... old Bone, the enamel Painter, who has got a nervous twitch & a creaking voice, as if he was always watching a bit of Ivory in a furnace for fear it should crack!' (Haydon's Diary, 17 July 1826).
'... old Bone, the enamel Painter, who has got a nervous twitch & a creaking voice, as if he was always watching a bit of Ivory in a furnace for fear it should crack!' (Haydon's Diary, 17 July 1826).
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Earland 1911Ada Earland, John Opie and his Circle, 1911, p 265.
Peter 1962-3
Mary Peter, John Opie 1761-1807, 1962-3, p 20.
Rogers 1878
J. J. Rogers, Opie and his Works, 1878.
Rogers 1880
J. J. Rogers, Notice of Henry Bone RA, 1880.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Walker, Regency Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 1985, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.