Lot 117: JOHN COMERFORD (1770-1832)

Captain Conroy, facing right in the uniform of the 18th Hussars, blue coat with gold lacing and red collar, fur-bordered cloak draped over his left shoulder and fastened by black ribbon, frilled cravat signed on the obverse 'Comerford' (lower right) and signed and dated on the backing paper 'Capt n Conroy - Comerford 1808' oval, 2 7/8 in. (73 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse LITERATURE P. Caffrey, John Comerford and the Portrait Miniature in Ireland c. 1620-1850 [exhibition catalogue Rothe House, Kilkenny, and Hunt Museum, Limerick], Dublin, 1999, p. 67.