A pencil drawing showing the young Louisa Mary Portman. She is shown seated at a dressing table. She is shown facing left and is looking at a winged mirror. Inscribed below: Louisa
Inscribed lower right: Feb: 22 - 1839. VR, from nature.

Louisa Mary Portman was the daughter of Queen Victoria's Lady of the Bedchamber, Lady Emma Portman. In her journal entry of 22 February 1839, Queen Victoria describes how she "Made two sketches of dear little Louisa, who played some time in my room".