Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/1756-1825/1827)
Lot 490

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

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 2,500

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HORACE HONE, A.R.A. (ANGLO-IRISH, 1754/1756-1825/1827)
A young lady called Susanna Home, in white dress, wearing a portrait miniature of a gentleman suspended from a pearl necklace, long, dark curling hair; sky background
Signed with monogram and dated 'HH / 1793' (lower right)
On ivory
Oval, 70 mm. high, gilt-metal frame engraved 'John Ann / AAH William Richard / Susanna & Robert Home'

With D. S. Lavender (Antiques) Ltd., in 1992.
The late Mrs T.S. Eliot (1926-2012) Collection, London.

Specialist note

The sitter in the present lot may be Susanna Home, née Delane (d. 1790), the wife of the Irish painter and miniaturist, Robert Home (1752-1834). They were married in Dublin in 1783, and had four sons and a daughter. After his wife's death seven years later from consumption, Home moved to India, first to Lucknow and subsequently to Cawnpore, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1795, he remarried.