CHARLES ROBERTSON (IRISH 1760-1821) Portrait miniature of a Lady, circa 1800 in white dress, her brown hair braided at the front and tied up in a bun at the back, painted  Watercolour on ivory Gilt-metal frame, the reverse glazed to reveal brown plaited hair  Oval, 62 mm (2 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 7, 26 (# 76) As young as nine Robertson exhibited "Designs in Hair" at the Society of Artists in Dublin. By 1775 he was showing miniatures. His brother Walter was also a miniature painter. Between 1785 and 1792 he was in London where he exhibited at the Royal Academy.