JAMES SCOULER (BRITISH 1740-1812) Portrait miniature of a young girl wearing a blue dress with fine lace bodice, her neatly plaited hair decorated with a spray of pink and violet flowers Watercolour on ivory Gold bracelet clasp frame Oval, 35mm (1 1/2 in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009); pp 11, 56 (#241) Although seemingly not signed on the obverse, this may well be inscribed on the reverse (the miniature has not been opened). It is an enchanting portrait and brilliantly shows off the fashionable costume of the 1760's.