SAMUEL COLLINS (BRITISH CIRCA 1735-1768) Portrait miniature of a gentleman wearing a gold trimmed lilac coat and lace cravat Signed with initials SC and dated 1758 on the obverse Watercolour on ivory Oval, 35 mm (1 1/2 in) high Exhibited: Comerford Collection at the Irish Architectural Archives, Dublin, 2009 Literature: The Comerford Collection: Portrait Miniatures, (privately published, Dublin, 2009) pp 7, 21 (#45); Paul Caffrey John Comerford and the Portrait Miniature in Ireland c 1620-1850, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, 1999, p. 23, number 22, illustrated in colour on p. 34 Collins was born in Bristol. He taught and painted miniatures in Bath, where his pupils included the miniaturist Ozias Humphry. In 1762 he left Bath because of financial difficulties and moved to Ireland.