Queen Caroline (1751-75) is depicted here with her son, the crown prince, later King Frederick VI of Denmark, holding a pink rose. On the table next to her lie a fan, a book and a black plumed hat. On the pedestal is a bronze bust of her brother, George III, and her own initial, C, is on the wall behind him.

Caroline Matilda was the ninth and youngest child of Frederick Louis (1707–51) and Augusta (1719–72), prince and princess of Wales. She married Christian VII of Denmark in 1767, aged 15. It was a very unhappy marriage and was dissolved in 1772. Christian suffered from severe mental disabilities and was only nominally king from 1772 onwards. From 1772 to 1784, his stepmother, Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and his half-brother Frederick, ruled Denmark. From 1784, his son Frederick VI ruled as prince regent. After 1772, after the exposure of her affair with Johann Friedrich Struensee, Caroline spent her life in exile in Celle, Germany.

The artist Carl Daniel Voigts (1747-1813) was born in Brunswick but worked in Celle as a miniature painter to Queen Caroline.

Inscribed by the artist on the back: Carolina Mathilda / Regina Daniae et Norwegiae / nat. Princ. Magn. Brittannia / pinxit ad vivum de C. D. Voigts, / Cellensis 1773.