This is one of a series of seven miniatures which also depicts Frederick III, King of Denmark, his consort Sophia Amalia, and four of their six children. Three of the miniatures, including the present one, are inscribed with the date 1676, which may be the year in which the whole series was painted by an unidentified Danish artist. The miniatures were first recorded in the Royal Collection in Queen Caroline's Closet at Kensington Palace. Charlotte Amalia, daughter of William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, married, in 1667, Christian V, King of Denmark. Inscribed in ink on the reverse: 'No 38 La Reine Charlotte de Dannemarck née Princesse de Hesse 1676'