This miniature has had the same history as its pendant (
62.122.103). It has been suggested by Hans Boeckh and also by Bodo Hofstetter that the sitter may be Sophia Dorothea (1687–1757), daughter of George I and sister of George II. If the pendant does represent the future George II, it would be appropriate that this work should represent his sister. The identification is to some extent borne out by comparison with portraits of Sophia Dorothea. The present work is particularly close to a portrait in the collection of the duke of Marlborough (John Kerslake,
Early Georgian Portraits, London, 1977, vol. 1, pl. 754), but it does not seem certain that this represents the same person as Kerslake's pls. 752, 753, and 755. Another possibility which should perhaps be considered is that it might represent George II's wife, Caroline of Ansbach (1683–1737), though again it would have to be earlier than Kneller's standard portrait of 1716 (Oliver Millar,
The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1963, no. 345, pl. 148). George and Caroline were married in 1705.
[2016; adapted from Reynolds and Baetjer 1996]