Henry Bone made a notable success during his career of producing historical sequences of portrait enamels for exhibition and sale. This enamel is from the series of English Sovereigns and Queens from Edward III to Queen Victoria which was completed by Henry Pierce Bone after his father’s death in 1834, building on a group of 11 historical copies by Henry Bone dating from as far apart as 1815 and 1831. To this were added 22 of his own enamels, all but one being completed in 1835 – 7. These were then united and presented for sale as a group of 33 with a ‘Catalogue of a Series of Portraits of the Sovereigns of England from the Earliest Period … to the Present Time; together with several of the Queens Consort Painted in Enamel by the late Henry Bone R.A. … and Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to Her Majesty The Queen Dowager & H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent’ (City of Westminster Archives, D86/fol. 16). Prince Albert purchased the series in 1843, paying two instalments each of £200 in July and October for Henry Bone’s ‘Enamels of the Kings & Queens’. Henry Bone's enamel is copied after the portrait of Henry VII in oil on panel by an anonymous English School artist, c.1500, formerly attributed to Jan Gossaert, at Hatfield House. Bone’s squared drawing for the enamel is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. The enamel follows it closely in all details except for the rings prominently placed on the sitter’s left hand, which are omitted from the drawing. Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: Henry VII. / London Aug s t 1818 / Painted by Henry Bone R.A. Enamel / painter in Ordinary to His Majesty /and Enamel painter to His R.H. the / Prince Regent after the Original / by Mabuse in the Collection of the / Marquis of Salisbury, Hatfield House, / Herts. and in ink on a label on the reverse: Henry 7 th. / From the Original by / Mabuse in the Collection / of the Marquis of Salisbury, / Hatfield House, Herts. / Enamel H. Bone R.A.