Portrait of King William III, half length, wearing armour with lace chemise and wig; and Portrait of Queen Mary II, half length, wearing an ermine-lined pink satin dress set with precious stones and pearls, pearl necklace, earrings and headdress

The prototypes with the sitters in full length and in the opposite direction, wearing State Robes, oil on canvases, 244 x 147 cm, are in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle (O. Millar, Pictures in the Royal Collection: Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian Pictures, I, 1963, pp.142/4, cat. nos.335 & 338, plates nos. 149 & 150). The rendering of Queen Mary in the present lot closely follows the original by Kneller, but King William is depicted wearing armour rather than State Robes.