Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784), Portrait and miniature painter
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Painter and miniaturist; b. Dublin; married 1742 in York Mary Earle, an heiress; settled in London by 1748; ceased miniature painting in the 1760s, turning to life-size oils; a director of the Society of Artists 1766, where he exhibited 1760-68; foundation member of the RA 1768; in 1775 he exhibited his Pictorial Conjurer, Displaying the Whole Art of Optical Deception (National Gallery of Ireland), a thinly-veiled criticism of Reynolds’s plagiarisms.
‘ ... [a] tall, upright, large man, with a broad-rimmed hat and a lapelled coat buttoned up to his stock, with measured and stately steps’ (J. T. Smith, 1828).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.
‘ ... [a] tall, upright, large man, with a broad-rimmed hat and a lapelled coat buttoned up to his stock, with measured and stately steps’ (J. T. Smith, 1828).
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, 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.