Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855) after Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (Dutch 1608-1651) Portrait miniature...

Henry Pierce Bone (1779-1855) after Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (Dutch 1608-1651)

Portrait miniature of a boy in a feathered cap

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint Inscribed on the reverse Prince of Orange./ Painted by Henry Pierce Bone/ after Frank Hals, May 1853

Enamel on copper, oval, in a giltwood frame with scroll and foliate decoration

105 x 75mm

Although the inscription on the reverse identifies the sitter as William II, Prince of Orange (1626-1650), the painting is based on a work of an unknown boy by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer, today in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, (inv. no. 2483).