JOSEPH SAUNDERS (BRITISH 1772-1811) Portrait miniature of a Gentleman, circa 1800 wearing a brown coat and tied white cravat, sky background  Signed with initials JS on the obverse  Watercolour on ivory Gold frame  Oval, 75mm (2 3/4 in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009  Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp12,64 (#291) Joseph Saunders worked in London as a miniaturist and engraver. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists and the Incorporated Society of Artists from 1772 to 1776, at the Royal Academy from 1778 to 1800. Schidlof writes about him: "...he was an excellent artist, much too little known...certain off his miniatures have some resemblance to those of Richard Grosse".  The Victoria and Albert Museum in London owns two of his miniatures (one formerly in the Pierpont Morgan Collection)