HORACE HONE A.R.A. (BRITISH 1754/6-1825) Portrait miniature of a Gentleman, wearing dark brown coat with gold buttons and tied white cravat Signed with initials HH and dated 1783 on the obverse Watercolour on ivory Gold frame the reverse glazed to reveal gold monogram ML on interwoven locks of hair Oval, 61 mm (2 1/2 in) high 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. 30, Number 49, illustrated in colour p. 37; The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 8, 32 (# 107)