This miniature of Victoria Duchess of Kent is mounted in a gold bracelet, engraved on the reverse with the inscription: 'To /My Beloved Ada / from / her Affectionate Grandmama V / 20th July 1853.' It was given as a gift from the sitter to her granddaughter on the latter's eighteenth birthday. The Duchess of Kent was a constant patron of Faija, and her account books record numerous payments to him between 1849 and 1855. Queen Victoria confirmed in a letter to the Duchess of Sutherland that 'he copies continually for dear Mama Sir William Rosses [sic] miniatures' (RA VIC/ADDA/24/337). This particular miniature is without doubt copied after a miniature by Sir William Ross; the source may have been the Duchess of Kent's 'picture (in a bracelet) painted by Ross and excessively like' which Queen Victoria received as a Christmas gift from her mother on 24 December 1837 (current location unknown). The Duchess is shown in the miniature as she appeared in the late 1830s and not in 1853.