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JOHN COMERFORD (c.1770-1832) Portrait of a Lady Watercolour on ivory Oval, 6cm high, 5cm wide Comerford learnt to paint by copying portraits in Kilkenny Castle and practiced in his native city and also in Carrick-on Suir before moving to Dublin in 1797 for a short visit. Critical acclaim followed when he exhibited two miniatures at Allen’s in Dame Street in 1800: ‘our astonishment at his pictures must excuse this note of admiration’. Comerford thereafter enjoyed a successful career, initially combining oil portraiture with miniatures, before specialising in the latter. ‘For many years’, writes Strickland, ‘he was at the head of his profession in his particular field of art’ and this miniature of a young woman in neoclassical dress shows his stylish panache at capturing pose and character.