New Light: More on Federal Bostonians and Their London Jeweler, Stephen Twycross
Fig. 18. The poet Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) by Henry Bone R.A. (British, 1755–1834). Enamel, signed on obverse, bone, signed and dated on the counter-enamel, 1798, gold frame with split pearl border and hanger, 2 1/4in. Courtesy of Bonhams. In 2018 I published an article about my discovery of three miniatures of John Hancock and his two children who died young (Figs. 1–3). The children’s miniatures were placed together at a later date in the elegant gold, double-sided, blue and white enameled case designed to be worn as a piece of mourning jewelry. Portrait miniatures are commonly studied, but their cases rarely
