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New Gallery, Exhibition of the Royal House of Tudor, 1890, No. 94. Burlington Fine-Arts Club, Exhibition of Early English Portraiture, 1909, No. 53.

Inscription on the Back of a BONE ENAMEL in the possession of Mr. Percy Horne, 49 Gloucester Road, W. The inscription is burnt into the enamel.

"SIR THOMAS MORE". London, Oct. 1811. Painted by Henry Bone, R. A., enamel painter extraordinary to His Majesty and enamel painter to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. After the original by Holbein in the possession of Angiolo Bonelli of Todi. It was in the collection of Brich's Heads of Illustrious Men belonging to (the reign of) Henry VIII. Was thrown out of window by Anna Boleyn, It was transported to Rome by the Cavalieri Creszienzi Roman, and on the extinction of his family it was inherited by the Duca Bonelli, from whom it was purchased by the present owner.