CHARLES ROBERTSON (IRISH 1760-1821) Portrait miniature Major, Later Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Erskine Knight of Pittodrie, Aberdeenshire, after the portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn. Wearing uniform of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers, circa 1784-89. Watercolour on ivory Gold frame, the reverse with gold monogram JB on blue glass, surmounted with pearls in star formation, within plaited hair border Oval, 70 mm (3 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. 27, Number 39, illustrated in colour p. 36; The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 8, 33 (# 117) Henry Erskine Knight was a Major in the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers from 31 December 1784 until 4 May 1789, when he became Lt. Colonel in the 27th Inniskilling Regiment of Foot. The 21st were a lowland Scottish regiment. We are grateful to Christopher Bryant for his assistance in identifying the sitter in this lot.