Lot 55
  • 55

HORACE HONE, A.R.A. | Portrait of a gentleman

Estimate
1,800 - 2,200 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Portrait of a gentleman
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, gold frame, the reverse with central glazed hair reserve;signed with monogram and dated lower right: HH / 1785
  • 72 by 56 mm.

Provenance

Jeffrey Whitehead, London, by 1889;
J.B. Robertson, by 1965,
his sale, London, Christie's, 12 July 1988, lot 188

Exhibited

London, 1889, no. 9;
Edinburgh, 1965, no. 284

Literature

Foskett, 1972, I, pp. 335-336;
Foskett, 1979, p. 229, no. 55A;
Foskett, 1987, p. 229, 569, no. 55A

Condition

One crack (6mm long) at 1 o'clock running into image, second (3mm) at 11 o 'clock. Possibly slightly faded by still very structure.
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