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HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855)
John Charles Spencer Viscount Althorp, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845), as Chancellor of the Exchequer, full length in Chancellor's robes over black mourning suit, standing beside a George II giltwood console table from Spencer House draped with green cloth, his right hand resting on a document entitled 'Amendment of the Poor Laws', large leather-bound books and folio propped against table leg, inkwell, salt cellar and quill on silver stand on table, red curtain, pillar and curtain interior; landscape background
HENRY PIERCE BONE (BRITISH, 1779-1855) John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845), as Chancellor of the Exchequer, full length in Chancellor's robes over black mourning suit, standing beside a George II giltwood console table from Spencer House draped with green cloth, his right hand resting on a document entitled 'Amendment of the Poor Laws', large leather-bound books and folio propped against table leg, inkwell, salt cellar and quill on silver stand on table, red curtain, pillar and curtain interior; landscape background signed and dated on the spine of the largest leather-bound book '1835. HPBone' (lower left), and signed, dated and fully inscribed on the counter-enamel 'John Charles Earl Spencer Viscount Althorp, later Chancellor of the Exchequer London Feb y . 1835 Painted from Life by Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent & Princess Victoria' enamel on copper rectangular, 14 x 10 in. (350 x 257 mm.), frosted ormolu mount engraved on lower edge 'ENAMEL. H.P. BONE.', in modern gilt-wood frame