Live Auction 8012Lyons Demesne Works of Art from The Collection of The Late Dr. Tony Ryan
Nathaniel Hone, R.A. (Dublin 1718-1784 London)
Lot 285

Nathaniel Hone, R.A. (Dublin 1718-1784 London)

Portrait of Miss Gardner, three-quarter-length, in a white dress with a blue sash and a hat, a bird on a string perched on her right hand, a bird cage to her side, in a landscape

Closed14 July 2011

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GBP 17,500

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Nathaniel Hone, R.A. (Dublin 1718-1784 London)
Portrait of Miss Gardner, three-quarter-length, in a white dress with a blue sash and a hat, a bird on a string perched on her right hand, a bird cage to her side, in a landscape
oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28 1/8 in. (92 x 71.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1992, lot 53 (£7,700).

Specialist note

Nathaniel Hone was one of the most talented Irish portrait painters of his generation. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he moved to London as a young man, where the local market offered greater possibilities; he only occasionally returned to Ireland afterwards. Hone initially specialized in painting portrait miniatures but gave this up in the 1760s to concentrate on work on the scale of life. He built up a fashionable portrait practice, and was one of two Irish founding members of the Royal Academy, the other being George Barret.