The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. Written by the Roman poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, the Aeneid comprises 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem's twelve books tell the story of Aeneas' wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem's second half tells of the Trojans' ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

A miniature portrait of Horatio Nelson, signed and dated 1805 by Henry Bone after the portrait by John Hoppner and commissioned by the Prince of Wales (the future George IV).

William V was the son of William IV of Orange and Princess Anne, daughter of George II. He succeeded his father in 1751 when he was only three years old and a long regency began until he came of age in 1766. He abdicated in 1802.

This is a copy by Henry Bone (1755-1834) of Sir Joshua Reynolds’ picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1769. ‘Hope’ was a portrait of Miss Morris, a daughter of Valentine Morris of Piercefield in Monmouthshire, who was a governor of one of the islands in the West Indies. When he died, his widow came to England with her children. Miss Morris, needing to establish a livelihood, was urged by relatives and friends, including Reynolds, to try acting. She appeared at Covent Garden in November 1768, as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Reynolds attended the first night, along with Dr Johnson and other supporters, but Morris was overcome with stage fright and fainted as soon as she stepped on the stage. She developed tuberculosis and died the next year, shortly after the exhibition opened.

Henry Bone - Cupidon et Psyché (1803)

Mary II (1662-1694) by Henry Bone.

Little Rock, Arkansas. 4.23.2023 - 5.57pm.

Henry Bone   The Three Graces, The Ladies Rushout, Anne, Harriet  and Elizabeth   1809