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Provenance:
The Twinight Collection
Another version of the present lot, signed by Henry Pierce Bone and dated 1845, was sold Christie's London, 2 December 2015 as lot 454. The counter-enamel of this earlier version describes the original portrait as a "mutilated picture in the Possession Mrs Dymoke / Wells". This version was slightly smaller and housed in a carved gilt-wood frame.
Milton is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. Forceful and idealistic, he served the Commonwealth as Latin Secretary but was arrested upon the restoration of Charles II. He was a Puritan, and an opponent of the Catholics and of the Stuarts. His life followed a tragic path - an unhappy marriage, the premature death of his second wife and his eventual blindness in 1652. Milton is best known for his epics, Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes (1671). He died in London on November 12, 1674.