JAMES REILY (IRISH d. 1780 or 1788) Portrait miniature of a Lady, circa 1765 wearing a salmon pink décolleté dress, trimmed with lace, a long strand of pearls and pearl earing, her hair upswept Signed with monogram JR on the obverse Watercolour on ivory Gilt-metal frame with engraved floral border, the reverse with brooch clasp Oval, 19 mm (3/4 in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 7, 28 (# 82) Reily exhibited with the Society of Artists in Dublin from 1765 to 1769, and in 1772, 1773 and 1779, principally miniatures