Nathaniel Hone the Elder
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Nathaniel Hone was an Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Self-portrait by Nathaniel Hone, circa 1760
Nathaniel Hone, 1718–84, Portrait of Harry Earl Aged 15. 1758, watercolour on ivory. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Final, revised, version of The Conjurer, 1775.
Hone family
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The Hone family is an Anglo-Irish family dating back to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland when Samuel Hone arrived with the Parliamentary army in 1649. The family is believed to be of Dutch extracti
Nathaniel Hone the Elder
…To show that his reputation was undamaged, Hone organised a one-man retrospective in London, the first such solo exhibition of an artist's work. The Hone family is related to the old Dutch landed family the van Vianens, who hold the hereditary title of Vrijheer. His great-grandnephew shared the same name and…
Nathaniel Hone the Elder (a self-portrait before 1784).
Leland Hone, great-grandson of Joseph Hone (1720-1799)
Bosbury House in Ledbury is still occupied by the Hones.