Portrait of Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) wearing a brown coat over a black waistcoat and a blue day cap
signed and inscribed on the counter-enamel 'Sam.l Richardson. / Feby 1852. Painted by Henry / Pierce Bone, after Hogarth, / in the Collection of Jos. Neeld / Esq.re M. P. -'
enamel on copper
10 x 8cm

Provenance:
Christie's, London, Henry Pierce Bone Estate Sale, 13th-14th March 1856, either lot 42 or 90.
Christie's, London, 26th November 1986, lot 92,
An Oxfordshire country house

Presumably one of the two miniatures in The Henry Pierce Bone Estate Sale, Christie's, London, 13th-14th March 1856, lots 42 and 90. A larger, oval, version of the present miniature by Henry Pierce Bone in which he is seated on a chair and depicted writing a letter, which is signed and dated August 1851, was also sold later at Christie's on 3rd June 2015, lot 447.

Although by 1811, when Scriven engraved the portrait now in the National Portrait Gallery, it was recognised as being by Chamberlain, it would seem that as late as 1852, if Bone was copying that work, he was not aware of the signature or he was copying another version or maybe a now lost original that was then regarded as by Hogarth.