The Duke of Clarence (1765-1837) is wearing the ribbon and star of the Order of the Garter, and holding a paper inscribed: The Freedom of the City of Bath. This miniature is based on a miniature by Charles Jagger belonging to Lady Erroll, one of the illegitimate daughters of the Duke of Clarence and Dorothy Jordan. This was engraved in a mezzotint by Henry Dawe. The Duke visited Bath with Queen Charlotte in 1817 and received the freedom of the city. There is a smaller head and shoulders versions of this miniature in the Royal Collection by Jagger (RCIN 52278) and an enamel copy by Henry Pierce Bone inset in a gold box (RCIN 4074).

Charles Jagger (c. 1770-1827) worked mainly in Bath. He lived in Bath at Green Street in 1809 and then at Milsom Street (1811-21), both at the heart of Bath’s fashionable shopping area. His portraits were said to be good likenesses. Hester Lynch Piozzi, the diarist, had her portrait painted by Jagger in 1819 and noted, ‘ Jagger’s Portrait lovely; and though lovely – very like indeed!’