Queen Victoria thought this painting ‘charming’. The watercolour from which it was copied is now in the Royal Library (22508) and is signed and dated as painted in Rome in 1844. Princess Louise (1848–1939) was the sixth of Queen Victoria’s nine children. Beautiful and artistic, as an adult she supported the women’s movement and helped launch the Girls Public Day School Company. Signed and dated: Louise / 1864. Inscribed on the back as copied from one of the watercolours painted by Richard Buckner for the decoration of the panels of a door in Prince Albert’s Dressing-Room at Windsor.