Princess Elizabeth of Clarence was the second daughter and third child of William, Duke of Clarence and Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (later King William IV and Queen Adelaide). After her death aged three months old in April 1821, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence commissioned the Scottish sculptor William Scoular to make a commemorative sculpture of the Princess, lying on her deathbed, to be placed at Windsor Castle. Princess Elizabeth is depicted wearing a draped dress and turban, and lying on a chaise-longue with a throw falling by her side, with her face turned to the right, her head resting on a cushion, and with her left arm resting on her chest. The sculpture is probably based on Princess Elizabeth’s death mask which William IV also commissioned Scoular to make. Queen Adelaide requested in her will, executed in December 1849, that the sculpture should be left to her niece, who by that date had ascended to the throne as Queen Victoria, and that it should be allowed to be placed in the Corridor at Windsor.