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 traditional identification of the sitter as Anne Boleyn has now been discredited and the image no longer forms part of the accepted limited iconography of Anne Boleyn.

Signed, dated and inscribed on the counter-enamel in red paint: Anne Boleyn / Second Wife of Henry 8 th & Mother of / Queen Elizabeth. London. Decemb r 1835. / Painted by Henry Pierce Bone Enamel / Painter to her Majesty & their R.H. the Duch ss of Kent & Princess Victoria From the Original / by Holbien [sic] formerly in the possess n of Sir George / Duckett Bar  t (in whose family it remained from the time / of Elizabeth) & now in the collection of / Jos h Neeld Esq. M.P. and inscribed in ink on a label on the reverse: Anne Boleyn / Wife of Henry 8 th. From the Original / by Holbein in the collection of / Josh Neeld Esq. M.P. / Enamel H.P. Bone / 12 Percy Street / Bedford Square.