Anne Mee (1780/5-1851) was the daughter of the artist John Foldsone. She was educated in London and was a protégée and pupil of the portrait painter George Romney. Lady Courtown introduced her to Queen Charlotte, and Charlotte Papendiek, journalist and assistant keeper of the wardrobe to Queen Charlotte, described Ann Mee drawing the queen and princesses at Windsor in 1790. Here, Princess Sophia appears to be aged about eighteen to twenty years old, and this miniature must date from a rather later sitting c . 1800. Mee obtained the patronage of George IV, when Prince of Wales, who commissioned the ‘Gallery of Beauties of George III’ – fashionable ladies of whom one list is in the Royal Archives and another printed in the Ladies Monthly Museum XVI (January 1814). Mee's portraits are often characterised by large eyes, a trait which is particularly notable in this miniature.

An enamel copy by Henry Bone of this miniature is also in the Royal Collection (RCIN 421921).