GEORGE CHINNERY (BRITISH 1774-1852) Portrait miniature of an unknown Gentleman, circa 1800, wearing black coat with gold buttons, striped waistcoat and knotted cravat Watercolour on ivory Gold frame, with blue glass reverse Oval, 70 mm high (3 in) Provenance: Robert Bayne Powell Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: Paul Caffrey, John Comerford and the portrait miniature in Ireland c 1620-1850, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1999, p. 50 Number 70, illustrated in colour p. 40; The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 8, 30(# 94) Chinnery rarely signed his work. This miniature displays two characteristic features of his miniature painting style: the deep blue background and the painting of the sitter's lower lip. The lip slightly protudes and is painted in red