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Nathaniel Hone

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Nathaniel Hone 1718-84, Irish miniaturist and portrait painter. Hone is noted for his smoothly painted, informal portraits of middle-class subjects. His painting The Conjurer (1775) formed part of the first recorded one-man show in Great Britain.


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Hone, Nathaniel
Hone, Nathaniel (1718–84). Irish miniaturist...was meant to represent her. (Hone painted out the nude figures...the removal of his painting Hone exhibited it in a one-man...kind recorded in Britain. Hone's sons, Horace ( c. 1755...father's best portraits. Evie Hone ... Read more
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Hone, Nathaniel ( b Dublin, 24 Apr. 1718...meant to represent her. ( Hone painted out the nude figures...the removal of his painting Hone exhibited it in a one-man...kind recorded in Britain. Hone's sons Horace ( c. 1755–...father's best portraits. Evie Hone ( b Dublin, 22 Apr. ... Read more
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Hone, Evie (1894–1955). Irish painter and stained-glass...most famous ancestor was the 18th-century portraitist Nathaniel Hone). She was partly crippled by polio at the age of eleven...overwhelmed by the deep spirituality of Rouault's work, Hone began designing stained glass in 1933; this was ... Read more
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