Henry Pierce Bone (6 Nov. 1779 – 21 Oct. 1855) was an English enamel painter.[2]
Bone was the son of Henry Bone, the notable enamel painter, and Elizabeth Van der Meulen, herself a descendant of the distinguished battle-painter Adam Frans van der Meulen. His brother was artist Robert Trewick Bone (1790-1840). He received his art education from his father.[2]
He commenced as a painter in oils, and when twenty years of age exhibited some portraits. In 1806 he began painting classical subjects, and continued doing so until 1833, when he reverted to his father's art of enameling. This mode of painting he continued to practise until he ceased to exhibit, in 1855, the year of his death.[2]
In 1846 he published a catalogue of his enamels. He was appointed successively enamel painter to Queen Adelaide, and to Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort. Though his enamels did not attain the supreme excellence of his father's, they display very considerable ability, and he was not only a rapid sketcher, but his designs for classical and scripture subjects were bold and skilful.[2]
Bone died at 22 Percy Street, Bedford Square, London on 21 October 1855.[2]
This article incorporates text from the article "BONE, Henry Pierce" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.