Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/1756 - 1825/1827)
Lot 164

HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/1756 - 1825/1827)

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 6,875

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HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/1756 - 1825/1827)
Elizabeth Prentice, in profile, in décolleté white dress and yellow stole, pearl-set gold brooch on her left sleeve, upswept dark brown curling hair
signed with monogram and dated on the obverse 'HH / 1807' (lower left) and in full on the counter-enamel '-Elizabeth- / The Wife of Thos Prentice Esqr. / -of Dublin- / Horace Hone A.R.A. / - Pinxt. in London /1807'
enamel on copper
oval, 4.1/8 in. (106 mm.) high, silver-gilt bezel

Acquired by Edward Grosvenor Paine at 'Plaza', in 1963.
Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911-1989) Collection, New Orleans, La., inv. no. 237; (+) Christie's, London, 15 October 1996, lot 127.