King George IV when Prince Regent (1762-1830), facing left in the red uniform of a Field-Marshal, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the breast stars of the Order of the Garter, the Saint Esprit, the Black Eagle and St. Andrew and miniature ribbons

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HENRY BONE, R.A. (1755-1834)
King George IV when Prince Regent (1762-1830), facing left in the red uniform of a Field-Marshal, wearing the badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the breast stars of the Order of the Garter, the Saint Esprit, the Black Eagle and St. Andrew and miniature ribbons
signed with monogram on the obverse 'HB.' (mid-left) and signed, dated and inscribed in full on the counter-enamel 'His R H the Prince Regent London Augst. 1816 Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel painter in Ordinary to His Majesty & Enl painter to the Prince Regent after Sir Thos Lawrence R A'
enamel on copper
rectangular with rounded corners, 3 x 2 3/8 in. (76 x 60 mm.), gilt-metal mount within rectangular black wood frame

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Lot Essay

For other miniatures of King George IV when Prince Regent in Field-Marshal's uniform by Henry Bone, see R. Walker, Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Cambridge, 1992, nos, 757-766, pp. 281-284.

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