This is one of a series of seven miniatures which depict Frederick III, King of Denmark, his consort Sophia Amalia, and four of their six children. Three of the miniatures 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. Several of the miniatures in this group are dependant on large-scale oil portraits; no such source has yet been identified in the present case, which shows Anna Sophia in allegorical form, probably as Minerva, holding a pike in her right hand and resting her left arm on a shield. Anna Sophia, first daughter and second child of Frederick III, King of Denmark, married, in 1666, John George III, Elector of Saxony. Inscribed in ink on the gessoed back: 'No 39 Anne Sophie Princesse de Dannemarck marie au prince Electoral de Saxe'.