GEORGE PLACE (IRISH d. 1805) Portrait of an unknown Gentleman, circa 1795 with powdered hair, wearing a brown coat, yellow waistcoat and white stock Watercolour on ivory Gilt-metal frame Oval, 69 mm (2 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 8, 35 (# 128) Place entered the Dublin Society`s Schools in December 1775 and studied there under F. R. West. After practicing for a time in Dublin he went to London and in 1791, when he was living at 37 Southampton Street, he sent a "Portrait of a Gentleman" to the Royal Academy. Next year he sent from 56 Poland Street ten miniatures, and he again exhibited in 1793 and 1797. In these years his address was 211 Piccadilly and 48 Great Marlborough Street. After some years in London he went to York, and afterwards to India, where he appears to have followed his profession at Lucknow; but nothing is known of his career in the East. He died in India about 1809.