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.

Bone's enamel is a copy after John Partridge's (1789 – 1872) three-quarter-length portrait of the Prince begun in 1840 and completed in 1841 (403021). It was possibly acquired by Queen Victoria in 1841 and was subsequently added to the group of enamels of the English Sovereigns and Queens acquired by Prince Albert in 1844.

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: H.R.H. Prince Albert / London Septr. 1841. Painted by Henry / Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to her / Majesty & H.R.H. Prince Albert / the Queen Dowager & H.R.H. the / Duchess of Kent. From the / Original by J. Partridge. and further inscribed: P.M. / B.