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HONE, NATHANIEL (1718-1784)

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HONE, NATHANIEL (1718-1784) , See also:British painter, was the son of a See also:merchant at See also:Dublin, and without any See also:regular training acquired in his youth much skill as a portrait-painter. See also:Early in his career he See also:left Dublin for See also:England and worked first in various provincial towns, but ultimately settled in See also:London, where he soon made a considerable reputation. His oil-paintings were decidedly popular, but he gained his See also:chief success by his miniatures and enamels, which he executed with masterly capacity. He became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists and afterwards a See also:foundation member of the Royal See also:Academy; but he had several disagreements with his See also:fellow-members of that institution, and on one occasion they rejected two of his pictures, one of which was regarded as a See also:satire on See also:Reynolds and the other on See also:Angelica Kauffman. Most of his contributions to the Academy exhibitions were portraits. The quality of his See also:work varied greatly, but the merit of his miniatures and enamels entitles him to a See also:place among the ablest artists of the British school. He executed also a few mezzo-tint plates of reasonable importance, and some etchings. His portrait, painted by himself two years before his See also:death, is in the See also:possession of the Royal Academy.

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