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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Henry Cecil, Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804), reclining in a red velvet chair, his hair cut fashionably short, wearing black silk breeches and stockings, waistcoat and coat, holding a pair of scissors and balancing a book on its spine image 1
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Henry Cecil, Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804), reclining in a red velvet chair, his hair cut fashionably short, wearing black silk breeches and stockings, waistcoat and coat, holding a pair of scissors and balancing a book on its spine image 2
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Henry Cecil, Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804), reclining in a red velvet chair, his hair cut fashionably short, wearing black silk breeches and stockings, waistcoat and coat, holding a pair of scissors and balancing a book on its spine image 3
The Twinight Collection
Lot 39*

Henry Bone R.A.
(1755-1834)
Henry Cecil, Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804), reclining in a red velvet chair, his hair cut fashionably short, wearing black silk breeches and stockings, waistcoat and coat, holding a pair of scissors and balancing a book on its spine

500 Years of European Ceramics including the Twinight Collection
4 July 2024, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834)

Henry Cecil, Marquess of Exeter (1754-1804), reclining in a red velvet chair, his hair cut fashionably short, wearing black silk breeches and stockings, waistcoat and coat, holding a pair of scissors and balancing a book on its spine.
Enamel on copper, signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel, The Most Noble the Marquis of Exeter. London March 1803. Painted by Henry Bone A.RA Enamel Painter to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales after a picture by M.A.Shee R.A. painted in 1802, gilt-wood frame.
Rectangular, 190mm (7 1/2in) high

Provenance:
Georgian Frivolities: The Mort and Moira Lesser Collection of English Enamels, Bonhams London, 19 October 2011, lot 166;
The Twinight Collection

Footnotes

Henry Bone's preliminary drawing, squared for transfer and inscribed, Marquis of Exeter after Shee 1803 is in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, no. NPG D17281.

The inscription on the back of the original frame, possibly written by Henry Bone, refers to the subject as 'The late Marquis of Exeter', suggesting the piece was not delivered until after the Earl's death. Lord Exeter died in May 1804, aged 50.

Henry Cecil (1754-1804) was the only son of Thomas Chambers Cecil, second son of Brownlow, 8th Earl of Exeter. Henry succeeded his uncle as 9th Earl in 1793. He was elevated to the title of Marquess in 1801. He married firstly Emma, daughter of Thomas Vernon, whom he divorced in 1791, following her elopement with the Rev. William Sneyd. The previous year, as 'John Jones of Great Bolas', he had bigamously married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Higgins. This marriage was legalized four months after his divorce. Tennyson's Lord of Burleigh proffered a rather romantic interpretation of the Earl courtship with the "Peasant Countess". After her death in 1797, he married in 1800, Elizabeth, the Dowager Duchess of Hamilton.

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