Henry Pierce Bone was the eldest son of the leading enamellist Henry Bone and was taught enamel painting by his father. The pair worked in collaboration until Henry Bone's death in 1834, when Henry Pierce Bone took his father's place as the most prolific and successful enamellist of the time, utilising his father's methods and in some cases his preparatory drawings to continue to produce historical copies in enamel. He worked as Enamel Painter to William IV, Queen Adelaide, the Duchess of Kent, and to Prince Albert.

The Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg is shown in Hussar's uniform with a fur pelisse over his shoulders, and with the ribbon of the Order of the Garter and the neck badges of the Orders of Maria Theresa of Austria and the Red Eagle of Prussia. Henry Pierce Bone's enamel is after a portrait known from a lithograph in the Royal Collection (610973). The lithograph is reproduced as a copy after a picture by Johann Friedrich Voigt (1792 – 1873), Court Painter to the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.

Frederick VI, Hereditary Prince and, from 1820, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, was the son of Frederick V, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt. He married, in 1818, Princess Elizabeth, third daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte, whose dowry was used to service the considerable debts he inherited on his succession.

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: The Landgrave / of Hesse Homberg / London. Jan  y 1844. Painted / by Henry Pierce Bone / Enamel Painter to Her / Majesty & H.R.H. Prince Albert &c.