Cornish Worthies Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men And Families volume 1
Cornish Worthies Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men And Families volume 1
Walter Hawken Tregellas
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Bristol pieces so marked are now very rare. On the failure in business of his new master, Champion, in 1778, Bone, in the following year, came to London, with one guinea of his own in his pocket, and 5 lent to him by his friend, Morris, a cooper. At first he found employment in enamel- ing watches, etc. ; but this work failing him, owing to a change of the fashion, he commenced miniature- painting in water-colours on ivory, and also in enamel. Here it may be noted that he was em- ployed first o...n enamel-painting, etc. , by Randle and Co. , Paternoster Row ; and also on painting fans for Crowder and Co. , Foster Lane. His distinguishing excellence is said to have been that he used enamel paints just as other colours, instead of, according to the feeble practice of the day, first mixing on the palette every colour to be used. His predecessor in this art was Horace Hone ; but the latter's work was, in many respects, very inferior to that of the Cornish artist. Dr. Wolcot (Peter Pindar) early recognised his merit, as he also did that of Opie, and recommended Henry Bone, R.
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