HENRY BONE R.A. (BRITISH 1755-1834) Portrait miniature of Caroline Anne East (b.1772) with her brother Henry, after John Russell Signed H Bone on the obverse and indistinctly inscribed and dated 1830 on the counter-enamel Caroline Anne East eldest daughter of George Vansittart esq M.P. and Henry his youngest son (now rear Admiral) taken from a picture at Bisham Abbey in which a brother (Frederick) is represented petting... Enamel Gilt-metal mount and frame Rectangular, 120mm (4 3/4 in) high Provenance: Bonhams, 24th November 1999 Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp.6, 19, (#35) and 67 (sitter #13) Caroline was the eldest daughter of George Vansittart. She married Augustus Henry East in 1792 aged 20. Henry East became a Rear Admiral. Bone was appointed Royal Enamelist to King George III, George IV and William IV. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. He produced a number of enamel copies of the work of the great Renaissance and Baroque masters. He was able to sell many of these works, since such subjects were popular in the early nineteenth century. He also continued to receive a steady number of commissions from the Prince of Wales and several other aristocratic patrons for enamel miniatures. No other enamel artist of the time could produce such large, high quality works. Bone came to be known as the "Prince of Enamelers", as his enamel work has seldom been equaled.