This is one of the series of forty-nine portrait miniatures (420431-420679; Royal Collection) of German and other forebears of the Hanoverian dynasty which were first recorded hanging in Queen Caroline's Closet at Kensington Palace by George Vertue in 1743. The series can be dated fairly narrowly by internal evidence to the years between 1593-7 and appears to be the work of a single as yet unidentified miniature painter who worked mainly at the Brunswick-Lüneburg court but also visited Brandenburg and other centres. The artist was a naïve successor to the tradition of German court portraiture established by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) at the court of the Elector of Saxony at Wittenberg. Henry the Younger, son of Otto II, the Magnanimous (see 420431) and Anna (420432), succeeded to the Dukedom of Brunswick-Lüneburg on the death of his father in 1471. He came of age in 1486 and abdicated in 1521. Inscribed at the top in white: HENRICH HERZOG. Z. BRAUN UND LUNEBURG.