WILLIAM GRIMALDI (BRITISH 1751-1830) Portrait miniature of a Gentleman wearing a blue coat, white waistcoat, red vest and white waistcoat, and tied cravat, powdered hair Signed and dated Grimaldi 1793 on the obverse Watercolour on ivory Gold frame, the reverse with gold monogram JG on blue glass Oval, 70mm (2 3/4in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 9, 45 (# 180) In the Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Engravings by William Grimaldi, which was privately printed in 1873, there are only two miniatures recorded as being painted in 1793 and both of them are ladies. This suggests that the sitter may have not paid for this miniature and hence there is no record of it in the catalogue. Grimaldi was one of the leading artists from the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, being employed as Enamel Painter to George IV.