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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Elizabeth Chamberlain Towry (d.1806), her upswept curling brown hair held with a peach bandeau and wrapped in a gauze scarf, wearing a high-necked, white silk dress with jewelled clasps image 1
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Elizabeth Chamberlain Towry (d.1806), her upswept curling brown hair held with a peach bandeau and wrapped in a gauze scarf, wearing a high-necked, white silk dress with jewelled clasps image 2
Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834) Elizabeth Chamberlain Towry (d.1806), her upswept curling brown hair held with a peach bandeau and wrapped in a gauze scarf, wearing a high-necked, white silk dress with jewelled clasps image 3
The Twinight Collection
Lot 42*

Henry Bone R.A.
(1755-1834)
Elizabeth Chamberlain Towry (d.1806), her upswept curling brown hair held with a peach bandeau and wrapped in a gauze scarf, wearing a high-necked, white silk dress with jewelled clasps

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

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Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834)

Elizabeth Chamberlain Towry (d.1806), her upswept curling brown hair held with a peach bandeau and wrapped in a gauze scarf, wearing a high-necked, white silk dress with jewelled clasps.
Enamel on copper, signed, dated and indistinctly inscribed on the counter-enamel [...][...] Painted by Henry Bone ARA/ Enamel painter to HRH the/ Prince of Wales after/ [...][...]Lawrence RA/ July 1808, gilded composition frame with scrolling acorn leaf mouldings, within a laurel leaf and ribbon border.
Rectangular, 95mm (3 3/4in) high

Provenance:
The Canterbury Auction Gallery, 23 June 2009, lot 371 (as Anne Lady Ellenborough) ;
The Twinight Collection

Footnotes

Elizabeth was the wife of Captain George Henry Towry (1767-1809), a Royal Navy officer best known for his service as commander of the frigate HMS Dido, in the action of 24 June 1795 in the Western Mediterranean Sea during the French Revolutionary Wars. Elizabeth and George married in 1802, a marriage noted for its "greatest harmony and most perfect happiness" until her untimely death in 1806 which left him grief-stricken.

The original drawing (squared for transfer) for the present lot is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, no. NPG D17263 and inscribed The Late Mrs. Towry/ after Lawrence for Captn T./ May 1808. A further drawing relating to an oval version of the present lot, dated December 1807 is also in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery no. NPG D17336.

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