'Master Sanders' possibly John Arnold Sanders (b.c.1801)
Peter Joseph Bone (1785 – 1814)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1810
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 597 mm (28 1/2 x 23 1/2in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 597949
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, 'Master Sanders', possibly John Arnold Sanders (b.c.1801) by Peter Joseph Bone (London 1785 – Toulouse 1814), circa 1810. Portrait of a young boy, half-length, slightly turned to right, looking to the left, leaning with both arms on a fence, wearing a white open shirt and brown waistcoat and holding a crook cradled in his left arm. The miniature-painter son of the Bath miniature-painter John Sanders Jr. (1750-1825), painted by a fellow-member of a miniature-painting dynasty Peter Joseph Bone (1785–1814).
Provenance
Label states that the portrait came from the Sanders Collection, Grasmere, Bath; bought and bequeathed by Sir Percy Malcolm Stewart (1871-1951) to the National Trust and transferred to Montacute House, 1960 after the death of Lady Stewart.
Credit line
Montacute House, The Malcolm Stewart Bequest (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: Small gilt tablet affixed to bottom centre of frame: Master Sanders. / P.J. BONE. / From the Sanders Collection, Grasmere, Bath
Makers and roles
Peter Joseph Bone (1785 – 1814), artist
References
Montacute House, Somerset, 1991 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, p.63 "THE LIBRARY ANTE-ROOM PAINTINGS 'Master Sanders' Nothing is known of the sitter. The portrait is said to be by P.J.Bone', but no artist of this name is recorded. It may be by Henry Bone (1779-1855) (Stewart bequest.) Unknown artist, early nineteenth century." Montacute House, Somerset, 1997 [The National Trust; Malcolm Rogers] 1991, revised 1997 , p.69 "THE HALL CHAMBER PAINTINGS 'Master Sanders' Nothing is known of the sitter. The portrait is said to be by P.J.Bone', but no artist of this name is recorded. It may be by Henry Bone (1779-1855) (Stewart bequest.) Unknown artist, early nineteenth century."