This miniature, by Charlotte Jones (1768-1847), is a commemorative portrait, painted the year after the princess’ death. It is one of a series of 12 portraits, all in the Royal Collection, depicting the princess from when she was a child to this portrait of 1818. Charlotte Jones collected the portraits after the princess's death in 1817, mounted them in a black and gold triptych and preserved them as a treasured family possession.  They were recorded in the possession of the artist's descendants (Mrs Herbert Jones, The Princess Charlotte of Wales, p. 6-8) before being acquired for the Royal Collection in 1945. 

Jones was a pupil of Richard Cosway. She worked in London and Manchester and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1823. She was appointed miniature painter to Princess Charlotte in 1808.