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Fine Portrait Miniatures Thursday 30 May 2013 at 2Pm Knightsbridge, London Fine Portrait Miniatures Thursday 30 May 2013 at 2pm Knightsbridge, London Fine Portrait Miniatures Thursday 30 May 2013 at 2pm Knightsbridge, London Bonhams Enquiries Please see back of catalogue Montpelier Street Jennifer Tonkin for important notice to bidders Knightsbridge + 44 (0) 20 7393 3986 London SW7 1HH [email protected] Illustrations www.bonhams.com Front cover: Lot 104 Lesley Henderson Inside front cover: Lot 111 Viewing + 44 (0) 20 7393 3985 Inside back cover: Lot 183 Thursday 23 May 9am to 4.30pm [email protected] Back cover: Lot 136 Friday 24 May 9am to 4.30pm Tuesday 28 May 9am to 4.30pm Department Consultant: Please see page 2 for important Wednesday 29 May 9am to 4.30pm Camilla Lombardi new information on collection and after-sale storage. Thursday 30 May 9am to 12noon Customer Services Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm For enlarged images and detailed Bids +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 shots of all lots, please go to: +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 www.bonhams.com/20767 and +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax view the online catalogue. To bid via the internet Sale Number: 20767 please visit www.bonhams.com Catalogue: £16 Please see the Sale information page for full storage Please note that bids should be information. submitted no later than 24 hours before the sale. New bidders must also provide proof of identity when submitting bids. Failure to do this may result in your bids not being processed. Bidding by telephone will only be accepted on a lot with a lower estimate in excess of £400. Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email [email protected] with “Live bidding” in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service. Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Chairman, Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Iain Rushbrook, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Group Managing Director, Matthew Bradbury, Harvey Cammell, Simon Cottle, Veronique Scorer, James Stratton, Roger Tappin, Matthew Girling CEO UK and Europe, Andrew Currie, David Dallas, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Michael Wynell-Mayow. Montpelier Street, Geoffrey Davies, Jonathan Horwich, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Grant, Robin Hereford, London SW7 1HH Patrick Meade, Caroline Oliphant, Hugh Watchorn. Asaph Hyman, Charles Lanning, Camilla Lombardi, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Fergus Lyons, Paul Maudsley, Gordon McFarlan, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Andrew McKenzie, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Julian Roup, Sale Information Bids Important Notice to Payment +44 (0) 20 7447 7448 Buyers Collection & All charges due to Bonhams must +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Storage After Sale be paid by the time of collection [email protected] All sold lots will be held at from Bonhams’ warehouse. www.bonhams.com Bonhams Knightsbridge. Payment in advance Payments Tel: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Buyers to ascertain amount due by: +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 cash, cheque with banker’s +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax card, credit card, bank draft or traveller’s cheque. 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Department on: +44 (0) 20 8963 2849 +44 (0) 20 8963 2850 +44 (0) 20 7629 9673 fax [email protected] 1 3 2 1 Henry Pierce Bone (British, 1779-1855), after Hans Holbein the According to the artist’s inscription on the counter-enamel, the present Younger (German, c.1497-1543) lot derives from the Ditchley portrait of Henry VIII, commissioned by A Lady called, Catherine Howard (c. 1518-1542), wearing red dress with Sir Henry Lee, KG (1533-1611) to decorate his newly built long gallery gold embroidery to her standing collar and white lining, multi-stranded at Ditchley, his residence in Oxfordshire. Sir Henry Lee began working pearl necklace, French hood with gold jeweled frontlet set with rubies at the court of Henry VIII when he was just fourteen years of age. and pearls, her black veil falling behind her shoulders. His career at court was long and prosperous, serving ‘five succeeding Enamel, inscribed on the counter-enamel Catherine Howard/ from a princes’ including Elizabeth I, to whom he became Queen’s Champion, Drawing by Hol/ bein, in the Royal collecti/ on, by Henry Pierce Bone,/ Master of the Armoury and Master of the Leash. When the present lot Enamel Painter to Her Ma/ jesty, Prince Albert &c./ Oct.r 1850., gilt-metal was conceived by Pierce Bone in 1850, the full-scale portrait remained mount. at Ditchley in the collection of Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon, 17th Viscount Oval, 55mm (2 3/16in) high Dillon CH FBA (1844–1932). It was later sold at Sotheby’s, London on 24 £500 - 700 May 1933 (lot 53) and at Sotheby’s, London again on 16 July 1952 (lot €590 - 820 45). The Ditchley portrait is one of only seven extant full-length portraits US$760 - 1,100 of the king, painted after Holbein’s celebrated mural at Whitehall Palace, which was completed in 1537 and destroyed by fire in 1698. All other It is today accepted that the original drawing by Holbein in the Royal versions after Holbein convey three-quarter, half- or bust-length images Collection (RCIN 912218) portrays an unidentified lady and not of the king. Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, as previously believed. 3 2 Henry Pierce Bone (British, 1779-1855) Henry Pierce Bone (British, 1779-1855), after Hans Holbein the A Lady called Anne of Cleves (1515-1557), wearing red dress with gold Younger (German, c.1497-1543) embroidery, white lace slip, blue ermine trimmed cloak, pearl necklace Henry VIII (1491-1547), King of England (1509-1547), wearing buff and matching pendant earring, her hair upswept underneath a blue doublet slashed to reveal white, embroidered with gold and bearing gold velvet hat dressed with white plumes (cracked). and ruby buttons, small white collar, red cloak embroidered with gold Enamel, inscribed on the counter-enamel Anne of Cleves/ ori. by Ber Van at the sleeves and trimmed with fur, jeweled collar, gold pendant chain, Orlay/ col. of Earl Spencer. Paint/ by Henry P. Bone. Enl/ Painter to Her black hat studded with pearls and matching jewels and carrying a large Majesty/ Prince Albert. & c./ Septr 1850., gilt-metal mount. white plume. Oval, 55mm (2 3/16in) high Enamel, inscribed on the counter-enamel Henry 8./ original by Holbein, £500 - 700 coln of Visc.t/ Dillon Ditchley, Oxon. Painted/ by Henry Pierce Bone, €590 - 820 Enamel/ Painter to Her Majesty, HRH/ Prince Albert. &c &c./ July 1850., US$760 - 1,100 gilt-metal mount. Octagonal, 91mm (3 9/16in) high The present lot is a copy of the slightly smaller, circular enamel that £800 - 1,200 Pierce Bone created for Queen Victoria in 1843 (Royal Collection, RCIN €940 - 1,400 421709). A pencil annotation by the miniature’s entry in the Enamels US$1,200 - 1,800 inventory, states that the identification of the sitter is incorrect (see, V. Remington, Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2010, vol. I, p.88, no.131). The identification was based on some prose to the reverse of the original oil portrait at Althorp, formerly attributed to Bernard van Orley (c. 1488-1541/2) and since re-attributed to the Flemish School. Another enamel version by Pierce Bone resides at Madresfield Court in Worcestershire (Remington, p.89). Fine Portrait Miniatures | 3 4 Florentine School, circa 1600 A Lady, wearing black dress with dark red bodice and white lace slip, white reticella collar, her multi-stranded pearl necklace secured at her decollete with a jeweled brooch, pearl pendant earring, her curling red hair upswept and dressed with crimson ribbon. Gold frame. Oval, 47mm (1 7/8in) high £1,000 - 1,500 €1,200 - 1,800 US$1,500 - 2,300 5 George Perfect Harding (British, born circa 1780-1853), after Paul van Somer (Flemish, 1576-1621) 4 Queen Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), Queen Consort of England and Ireland (1603-1619), wearing white dress embroidered with gold, her sleeves slashed to reveal red, white lace inset, neckline set with pearls and pinned to her bodice with a jeweled cross, embroidered fan-shaped ruff adorned with the crowned ‘S’, referring to her mother, Sophia of Mecklenburg and the crowned ‘C4’ to her brother, Christian IV of Denmark (1577-1648), pearl necklace and matching earring, her hair upswept and elaborately dressed with pearls and a cross-bow jewel. Watercolour on card, signed on the obverse G P Harding, rectangular papier-mache frame.
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