One of a set of twelve portraits of the ancestors of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert recorded hanging in Queen Victoria’s Bedroom, Windsor Castle, c. 1847-67. The ensemble consisted of portraits of the seven children of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf and their spouses, framed in identical gadrooned frames. It appears the scheme included copies by William Corden and Herbert Luther Smith commissioned by Queen Victoria and earlier portraits adapted for this ensemble. A label on the reverse suggests that this portrait is after an original by Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein (1788-1868).

Prince Ferdinand, second son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, married the Hungarian noblewoman Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág et Szitnya  in 1815 (see 407130). Their portraits are possibly discernible in a photograph of the Queen’s Bedroom of c. 1867-80 (RCIN 2402855).