Henry Bone made a notable success during his career of producing historical sequences of portrait enamels for exhibition and sale. This enamel is from the series of English Sovereigns and Queens from Edward III to Queen Victoria which was completed by Henry Pierce Bone after his father's death in 1834, building on a group of 11 historical copies by Henry Bone dating from as far apart as 1815 and 1831. To this were added 22 of his own enamels, all but one being completed in 1835 – 7. These were then united and presented for sale as a group of 33 with a 'Catalogue of a Series of Portraits of the Sovereigns of England from the Earliest Period … to the Present Time; together with several of the Queens Consort Painted in Enamel by the late Henry Bone R.A. … and Henry Pierce Bone Enamel Painter to Her Majesty The Queen Dowager & H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent' (City of Westminster Archives, D86/fol. 16). Prince Albert purchased the series in 1843, paying two instalments each of £200 in July and October for Henry Bone's 'Enamels of the Kings & Queens'.

The source for Henry Pierce Bone's enamel is a painting which was formerly in the Craven Collection at Coombe Abbey (no. 231). It was sold at Sotheby's, London, 27 November 1968 (lot 124), with an attribution to Paul van Somer. Traditionally identified as Anne of Denmark, the portrait has recently been identified as Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, on the basis of similarities in the jewellery depicted with that in an engraving by Boetius Adams Bolswerth after Michel Jansz. van Miereveldt of the Queen of Bohemia published in 1615.

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: Anne of Denmark, Queen of James 1st / Decr 1837 Painted by Henry Pierce Bone / Enamel Painter to the Queen Dowager and her / R.H. the Duchess of Kent. From the Original / by Vansomer in the Collection of the / Earl of Craven Combe Abbey Warwickshire.