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The CHAIRMAN remarked that Mr. Bate promised to read a 
| paper to them on the connection of miniature painters with Bath, 
last year, when Mr. Green gave them an account of the connec- 
tion of Bath with lithography. He confessed when he asked Mr. 
Bate to undertake such a thing, he had no idea it would involve 
so much trouble as he had evidently taken. A paper of the 
_ character they had listened to necessitated a great deal of labour, 
and he trusted the result would be to lead persons possessing 
miniatures to give Mr. Bate all the information they could on the 
subject, so that, in time to come, he might be enabled to bring it 
into a more complete and perfect form than was at present possi- 
ble, simply from the fact of his not having the material before 
him. As far as Mr. Bate had gone, he had done admirably ; for 
his own part, he had heard a great deal on the subject of minia- 
ture painting which previously he had no idea of. One knew 
that in almost every city at one time, miniature painting was a 
very fashionable art, everybody was painted in miniature, and he 
supposed most towns had their miniature painters. According to 
Mr. Bate, however, Bath possessed some very fine painters, and 
they had been all very interested in the manner in which Mr. 
Bate had worked out the connection of the city with them. 
Previously he had no idea that Bath was so mixed up with good 
miniature painting. He felt they would all join with him in 
thanking Mr. Bate for the great trouble he had taken in the 
matter. The paper constituted one more interesting addition to 
the history and connection of art with Bath. 
Major DAvIs remarked that no mention was made in Mr. Bate’s 
paper of the name of Bone. He was a man who painted minia- 
tures in Bath some time before the year 1790, and was made a 
Royal Academician in 1811. Major Davis produced an enamel 
of a great aunt, painted by Bone. He mentioned that Bone was 
born at Plymouth, and was apprenticed to the china factory at 
Bristol, a great deal of china being painted by him. He painted 
the portrait produced some time before 1790. Major Davis put 
