The Artist grinding his Colours

Robert Trewick Bone (London 1790 - 1840). Oil painting on board, The Artist grinding his Colours by Robert Trewick Bone (London 1790 - 1840), circa 1815 - 1840, signed on bottom strut of easel R.T.Pinxit 1815[?]. The artist is grinding colours at a small table on the right. In front of him is his easel, with his palette hanging from it, and on it a small whole-length portrait of a woman in black walking outdoors with a dog. Behind him is a painted nude and a painted landscape and above, on the shelf is a row of plaster-casts. It includes the Apollo Belvedere, the Farnese Hercules, Sleeping Bacchante, Laocoon, Menalaus and Patroclus and Apollino [?]. The Sleeping Bacchante is the only cast not after an Antique sculpture, but instead after an anonymous model (sometimes attributed to Falconet), of which there are bronzes of different sizes; an example of the larger is in the Wallace Collection (cat.S.214); an example of the smaller was exhibited in The French Bronze: 1500 to 1800, Knoldler & Co, New York, 1968, No.69) Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)