CHARLES FORREST (IRISH fl. 1765-1787) Portrait miniature of a Lady in low cut white dress trimmed with yellow and with fine bonnet with floral veil Signed with initials CF and dated 1776 on the obverse  Watercolour on ivory Gold brooch mount frame  Oval, 42 mm (1 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 7, 28 (#83) Forrest entered the Dublin Society School of Figure Drawing in 1765. He worked in chalk and pastel as well as watercolour on ivory. He exhibited miniatures at the Academy of Artists' exhibition in Dublin in 1774 and at the Society of Artists in Ireland exhibition in 1780. Signed and dated miniatures by Forrest are extremely rare.