Painted with precision, this portrait shows a young man named Jenico Preston with green eyes, typically pale Irish complexion and soft strawberry blonde curls wearing a vibrant blue coat with over-sized buttons and a red collar. The portrait is set in a gold frame, the reverse glazed to show brown hair flecked with gold and auburn.Jenico Preston was born into a noble family in Ireland in January 1775. His parents, Anthony Preston, 11th Viscount Gormanston and Henrietta Robinson, had only been married for three months. In adulthood, Jenico was an Irish politician taking an active role in the cause of Catholic Emancipation. Aged 19, he married Viscountess Margaret Southwell of Castle Mattress, and with her had a large family of seven sons and two daughters. He oversaw the re-building of the family home, Gormanston Castle, in Co. Meath though the work was abruptly halted when his wife died in 1820. Jenico died forty years later, aged 85.Gormanston Castle remained in the Preston fa...