This is one of a set of twelve oval portraits in matching frames of members of the Hanoverian royal family (406587-90 and 401339-46), only six of which are catalogued by Oliver Millar (OM 634-9 and 1218). They would appear all to have been copied from existing portraits of the first half of the eighteenth century. The set was first recorded in Windsor Castle in the 1870s. The sitter for this portrait was the uncle of George I and also the father of his imprisoned wife, Sophia Dorothea (1666-1726). he is here shown wearing armour, a white stock, long grey wig and the blue riband of ther Order of the Garter; a red, ermine-lined mantle over his left shoulder. This is a posthumous portrait and the hairstyle dates from the late seventeenth century.