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Lot 36*
Henry Bone R.A.(1755-1834)Sir William Ponsonby (1772-1815), wearing fur-trimmed brown cloak over armour
4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,024 inc. premium
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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834)
Sir William Ponsonby (1772-1815), wearing fur-trimmed brown cloak over armour.
Enamel on copper, signed, dated and fully inscribed on the counter-enamel, London/ July 1807 / Painted by Henry Bone ARA/ Enamel Painter to HRH/ Prince of Wales/ Miniature, gilt-wood frame.
Rectangular, 112mm (4 7/16in) high
Provenance:
By Family Descent
Purchased from Philip Mould & Company, 23 May 2008 ;
The Twinight Collection
Enamel on copper, signed, dated and fully inscribed on the counter-enamel, London/ July 1807 / Painted by Henry Bone ARA/ Enamel Painter to HRH/ Prince of Wales/ Miniature, gilt-wood frame.
Rectangular, 112mm (4 7/16in) high
Provenance:
By Family Descent
Purchased from Philip Mould & Company, 23 May 2008 ;
The Twinight Collection
Footnotes
Bone's preliminary drawing for the present lot, inscribed, after Saunders June 1807/ Col. Ponsonby., is in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, no. NPG D17594. Ponsonby was not, despite Bone's hurried note, made a full Colonel until 1810, but had been a Lieutenant Colonel since 1800. The enamel dates from the year of his marriage to the Hon. Georgiana Fitzroy, sixth daughter of the First Lord Southampton (described as a 'lady of very uncertain temper') and may have been a gift to her.
Ponsonby, a member of an Irish aristocratic family, was a long-serving Guards officer. He won a seat in the Commons as a supporter of the Whig opposition, which was led by his uncle, George Ponsonby, but he was mostly away on military service. Ponsonby commanded the Union Cavalry Brigade at Waterloo, where he was killed in action after a charge in which his horse got stuck in the mud. In his Waterloo Dispatch, Wellington expressed his grief "for the fate of an officer who had already rendered very brilliant and important services, and was an ornament to his profession".
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