A watercolour showing the bust of a girl. After RIchard Westall (RCIN 925131). The girl is shown facing right in profile, gazing upwards. She is wearing a white dress and green shawl.
Inscribed lower right: Victoria. January 1^st 1831.

Princess Victoria received her first drawing lesson from the artist Richard Westall in 1827, when she was eight years old. She started by copying Westall’s drawings of horses, hands and eyes and later copied some of his finished studies, all produced for this purpose.