After one of a group of miniature copies of the Stuarts by an unidentified mid-nineteenth-century English hand (420151; Royal Collection) which follows closely the line engraving of Princess Louisa Maria Stuart by François Chéreau published in Paris 1711, in which the original is given to A.S. Belle. Princess Louisa Maria Stuart, daughter of James II and Mary of Modena, was born in France in 1692 after the flight of her parents into exile; she lived at St Germain-en-Laye until her death from smallpox in 1712.

Joseph Lee (1780-1859) was self-taught as an an enamellist at a late age, but made a successful career as an enamel painter, exhibiting intermittently at the RA and the SBA between 1809 and 1853 from addresses in London. He styled himself as 'enamel painter' to Princess Charlotte of Wales and later worked as 'enamel painter' to Augustus, Duke of Sussex. It may have been the gift of a small enamel of the Duke of Sussex to Queen Victoria that first made her familiar with Lee's work. She employed his services for producing enamel copies based on oil paintings between 1844 and 1850. He retired from miniature painting in his final years and died, aged seventy-nine, in Gravesend, Kent, on 26 December 1859.