JOHN COMERFORD (IRISH c. 1770-1832) A pair of portrait miniatures of an unknown Gentleman and his Wife, circa 1799. He wears a dark coat and white chemise, she wears a low cut white dress with jewel brooch at her corsage and tortoiseshell comb in her upswept hair Watercolour on ivory Set in their original gold frames, the reverse of the lady portrait with elaborate arrangement of the sitter`s hair in the shape of sheaves of wheat with gold filigree ears of wheat and seed pearls; the reverse of the gentleman glazed to reveal a lock of brown hair on brown silk Ovals, 70 mm (3 in) high each (2) 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. 52, Number 79 and 80, illustrated in colour p. 40; The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 9, 39 (# 149a and 149b)