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HENRY BONE (1755-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 200 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY BONE (1755-1834)  ,
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English enamel painter, was born at Truro . He was much employed by
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London jewellers for small designs in enamel, before his merits as an artist were well known to the public . In 1800 the beauty of his pieces attracted the
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notice of the Royal Academy, of which he was then admitted as an associate; in 1811 he was made an academician . Up to 1831 he executed many beautiful
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miniature pieces of much larger
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size than had been attempted before in England; among these his eighty-five portraits of the time of Queen Elizabeth, of different sizes, from 5 by 4 to 13 by 8 in. are most admired . They were disposed of by public sale after his
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death . His Bacchus and Ariadne, after Titian, painted on a
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plate, brought the
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great price of 2200 guineas .

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