Portrait of Queen Victoria, standing small full-length, in Coronation robes beside a balustrade

Queen Victoria gave the first of five sittings for this portrait to Chalon in her robes of state on 24 July 1837. On 17 August of that year, she presented the finished work to her mother, the Duchess of Kent. The picture, signed (lower centre), and in watercolour, is currently in the Belgian Royal Collection. The Queen subsequently gave copies to the King of Prussia and the King of Portugal. The former is believed to have been destroyed in the Second World War. The latter was sold in 1947 to Robson Lowe, who delivered a paper regarding the portrait's fame to the Royal Society of Arts on 26 January 1955. It has been suggested that the present portrait could be the Portuguese version.
Other versions do exist, for example a larger work in the Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, donated by 1st Viscount Leverhulme. Another can be seen at the British Embassy in Vienna, formerly in the possession of the late Christopher Wood. Christie's offered another version on 13 February 1976, lot 77, catalogued as attributed to Chalon. It has not been possible to definitively resolve questions of attribution regarding this picture.