Jeremiah Meyer

(1735–1789) An Officer, probably of the Grenadier Company of the West Kent Militia, wearing scarlet coat with 'Kentish grey' facings, silver lace and epaulettes, his powdered hair worn en queue

c. 1765

Watercolour on ivory in gold frame, with white enamel border within original purple enamel edge and further surrounded by border set with white enamel balls, the reverse with glazed central aperture to reveal blue silk surrounded by the same enamel border as the obverse

Oval, 1 3/4 in (39 mm) high

Provenance

Important Gold Boxes, Vertu and Portrait Miniatures, Christie's, London, 10 December 2002, lot 168;
The Comerford Collection

Literature

The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 7, 20, (#38)

Exhibitions

The Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009