William Ross's miniature of Lady Jocelyn was sent over from Brussels by Philip, Count of Flanders, to Queen Victoria to be copied by Moira in January 1882, less than two years after the death of Lady Jocelyn, but more than 40 years after Ross had painted the original. It was returned to the Belgian Royal Collection in May of the same year. Ross's miniature had been painted in the year of the Viscountess's marriage and a year before her appointment as Lady of the Bedchamber. Queen Victoria considered her 'a most excellent & sedate dame d'honneur' (RA VIC/Y 90/45, 8 February 1842).

Lady Frances Elizabeth Cowper, youngest daughter of Peter Cowper, 5th Earl Cowper, and the Honourable Emily Mary Lamb, sister of Lord Melbourne. Lady Frances married, in 1841, Robert Jocelyn, 4th Viscount Jocelyn, heir of the 3rd Earl of Roden. One of the 12 unmar-ried ladies who were the trainbearers at Queen Victoria's marriage, she served as Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria from 1841 to 1867 and thereafter as Extra Lady of the Bedchamber. A noted beauty and an accomplished watercolourist, several of whose works remain in the Royal Collection, she died on 26 March 1880 at Cannes, predeceased by her three children. The Princess Royal wrote to Queen Victoria on that occasion: 'Once so much admired – so much "feted" and then so stricken and at last to die so lonely & broken hearted: it is too melancholy!' (RA VIC/Z 34/17, 8 April 1880).

Inscribed on the reverse in ink, probably by the artist: LADY JOCELEYN [sic] / <1841.> / copied by E. Moira: / after Sir William Ross R.A.