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He also directed an engineering project to supply the City of London with water, through a series of canals sourced from springs near Ware, Hertfordshire. Bone's pencil drawing of this portrait of Sir Hugh is in the National Portrait Gallery.\r\n\r\nIn the 17th century, new techniques of painting enamels allowed delicate portraits resembling tiny oil paintings to be created. These enamel miniatures were first fashionable in continental Europe, but were particularly in vogue in Britain from the 1720s to 1760s. Henry Bone (1755-1834) was a successful enameller in England. As a boy, he worked in William Cookworthy's porcelain factory in Plymouth. It was there that he was introduced to the art of enamel painting. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1781 and became a Royal Academician in 1811. Many of his enamel portraits are copies of older full-scale paintings, including a series depicting prominent men and women from the Elizabethan period. His sons, Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855) and William Bone Senior (active 1810-43), followed in his footsteps and became enamellers. Like his father, Henry Pierce Bone made enamel copies of paintings of historical figures.\r\n\r\nSir Arthur Gilbert and his wife Rosalinde formed one of the world's great decorative art collections, including silver, mosaics, enamelled portrait miniatures and gold boxes.  Arthur Gilbert donated his extraordinary collection to Britain in 1996.","physicalDescription":"Rectangular portrait miniature of Sir Hugh Myddleton depicted facing right wearing a black and brown coat with jewelled buttons, white ruff and cuffs, a black gown and a gold medallion. 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Enamel painter to His Majesty & / Enamel Painter to H.R.H. The Duke of York / from a picture by Cornelius Jansen in the / Goldsmiths Hall, London / London / Aug.-1822'.","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On the counter enamel"},{"content":"Inscribed 'Enamel HBone R.A.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"On the matte"}],"objectHistory":"Provenance: Trustees of the Earl of Lonsdale, March 19, 1980.   Christie's, London, lot 39.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Enamel miniature on copper of Sir Hugh Myddleton, glazed and in a gilt wood frame, England, 1822, by Henry Bone R.A. (1755-1834).","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Walker, Richard.  'Henry Bone's Pencil Drawings in the National Portrait Gallery', <u>The Walpole Society</u>, Vol. LXI, 1999, p. 218."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Coffin, Sarah and Bodo Hofstetter. <u>Portrait Miniatures in Enamel</u>. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd. in association with the Gilbert Collection, 2000. 168 p., ill. Cat. no. 12, pp. 58-59. 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