One of the group of miniatures of the younger members of the Royal Family completed by Tayler at Osborne House in the summer of 1864 (Court Circular, Sunday 7 August 1864). There is little indication in Tayler's portrait of the concerns that were expressed about the six-month-old Prince Albert Victor of Wales, a premature and underweight baby: 'our poor dear little gd: son', wrote Queen Victoria to her uncle, Leopold I, King of the Belgians, 'is … not very flourishing '. Although the Queen found him 'much grown & improved & a very great darling' the following month, Lady Macclesfield expressed the same reservations in her Journal later that year: 'I went to the Princess's room this morning, & found Princess Helena admiring the Baby, Prince Albert Victor, who is now just 10 months old. He is a merry lively little thing, and apparently very wiry & healthy, though extremely small in frame, & thin. I see no reason why he should not do well, but I wish he were bigger'.

Signed and dated centre left in brown paint: E.T. / 1864