GEORGE PLACE (IRISH d.1805) An unknown Lady wearing white dress, her curly hair flowing over her shoulders, painted circa 1800 Watercolour on ivory Original gilt-mounted rectangular black papier-mache frame Oval, 67mm high (2 3/4 in) Exhibitions: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009); Paul Caffrey, John Comerford and the Portrait Miniature in Ireland c. 1620-1850, at the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1999, p.31, Number 455, illustrated in colour p.37. After some years in London he went to York, and afterwards to India, where he appears to have followed his profession at Lucknow.