This enamel copy of Hans Holbein’s Whitehall mural portrait is by William Bone Senior (1792-1846) – second-generation member of the Bone dynasty of miniaturists and enamellists.
It was among the items from the Worcestershire estate of Sir Francis and Lady Anne Winnington offered by Bleasdale’s in Warwick on November 30.
Measuring 8 x 5in (20 x 13cm), and housed in a rosewood frame, it is inscribed on the counter enamel Henry 8th Painted in Enamel by William Bone after The Original by Holbein, 6 Clarendon Square, London 1833, with the frame inscribed in ink Miers Miniature Frame Maker, 35, Princes Street, Soho Square.