Portrait miniature of Robert, Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire (1760-1816).

A$18,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Enamel on copper, image 75 x 60 mm (oval format); inscribed, signed and dated on the counter-enamel verso: The Rt. Honble. The Earl of Buckinghamshire. Painted by Henry Bone ARA. Enamel Painter to HRH the Prince of Wales. Jany 1806 ; some traces of surface dirt to the sitter s face and hair, and some very minor pitting in the painted texture around the sitter s head, but otherwise extremely well preserved; the work is unglazed, and set within the original lacquered wood frame, 130 x 110 mm, with original brass suspension hook at top edge. This important portrait miniature of Robert, Lord Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire was painted in 1806 by Henry Bone, ARA (Associate of the Royal Academy). Bone s miniature is after William Beechey s full-length portrait of Hobart, also painted in 1806, which is now held in the Allport Library, nipaluna/Hobart. The portrait has a significant connection to Australian settler history. In 1803, under instructions from Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, the recent settlement in Van Diemen s Land at Risdon Cove on the River Derwent had been named Hobart in honour of Lord Hobart, the incumbent Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. When the settlement was abandoned a short time later, David Collins, the first Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen s Land (then under the jurisdiction of New South Wales) appropriated the name for the new settlement at Sullivan s Cove, which he called Hobart Town . This name first appears in a Gener

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