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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) John Williams Hope (1757-1813), facing left in blue coat with gold buttons and black collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair image 1
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) John Williams Hope (1757-1813), facing left in blue coat with gold buttons and black collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair image 2
The Twinight Collection
Lot 34*

Henry Bone R.A.
(1755-1834)
John Williams Hope (1757-1813), facing left in blue coat with gold buttons and black collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair

4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,040 inc. premium

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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834)

John Williams Hope (1757-1813), facing left in blue coat with gold buttons and black collar, white waistcoat and frilled cravat, powdered hair.
Enamel on copper, signed on the obverse, HBone, inscribed, signed and dated in full on the counter-enamel, Williams Hope Esq. Painted by Henry Bone ARA. Enamel painter to His R.H. the Prince of Wales after a Miniature painted in 1795 by R Cosway R.A. April 1806., ormolu frame, fitted red leather travelling case.
Oval, 88mm (3 7/16in) high

Provenance:
Maxime Hébert, Paris, no. 1391.
Ernst Holzscheiter, Meilen; Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1986, lot 38
Christie's, 10 December 2002, lot 37

Exhibited:
Arenenberg, Napoleonmuseum, Miniaturen und Karikaturen, 1954, no. 5 (lent by Ernst Holzscheiter)

Footnotes

A miniature of the sitter by Richard Cosway, signed and dated 1796, was sold from the di Portanova Collection, Christie's, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 37 and is illustrated in D. Foskett, Miniatures: Dictionary and Guide, Woodbridge, 1987, p. 360, pl. 104C.

Henry Bone's drawing for the present lot, inscribed - Williams Hope Esqre after/ Cosway - for Sir F. Baring-/ Decr 1806 is illustrated in R. Walker, Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings, The Walpole Society, LX, 1999, p. 331, no.277; and is the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG D17601).

John Williams Hope was a banker and merchant, a partner in Hope & Co, a famous Dutch bank that spanned two and a half centuries. The son of William Williams, he assumed the name of Hope on his marriage to Ann, niece and heiress of Henry Hope. A banker in Amsterdam, he was one of the eight statesman of Holland 1794-1806.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740-1810) who commissioned the present lot was an English merchant banker.

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