THOMAS RICHMOND (BRITISH 1771-1837) Portrait miniature of a young boy, circa 1810 wearing a blue jacket with white buttons, frilled lace collar and white cummerbund Watercolour on ivory Gold frame, the reverse glazed to reveal locks of hair tied with gold wire within gold mount and blue glass border Oval, 70mm (3in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 11, 60 (#266) Richmond's father was 'groom of the stables' to the Duke of Gloucester, and afterwards the proprietor of the Coach and Horses at Kew, where the artist was born in 1771. His mother, Ann Bone, was a cousin of George Engleheart, 'miniature-painter to the king'. Thomas became Engleheart's pupil, and was employed by the royal family in copying miniatures by his teacher and by Richard Cosway. He also copied in miniature size many of the portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the Royal Collection. His original and unsigned miniatures are numerous.