Three-quarter-length, seated, facing half to the right, supporting her head on her left hand; she rests her arm on a table on which are roses and a fan; she wears the riband of the Garter and a long sautoir of pearls. Painted for the Queen, who recorded the sittings in her Journal. By 25 May she considered the portrait 'admirable'; and on 3 July she described it as 'wonderfully good and nearly finished'. She told the Empress Frederick on 12 July that it was the 'best & likest he ever painted of me'. The artist relates that during sittings Princess Beatrice read to the Queen; and that the Queen talked to him of many things. Payments to Von Angeli on 9 August included £525 for a 'Half length portrait' of the Queen which was first placed at Windsor. A number of changes were made to the back of the chair, which was at first higher than it now appears, and rounded.