A stunning minature portrait, oil on Ivory, in period cast brass frame. Thomas J Barton, Baron of Glendalough, Co. Wicklow. Grandfather to President Erskine Childers and Robert Barton signatory of the Anglo Irish Treaty.
Handwritten on the painting, hidden below the mount - “The be sent to 8 St. James St, for Thos. J Barton by wed eve without fail”
Circa - 1835-1840
18x15cm