The form of this Grecian library chair evolved from George IV's 'Carlton House' chair illustrated in R. Ackermann, Repository of Furniture, 1814. This chair relates closely to the buttoned-leather chair, manufactured by W. F. Dalziel of Great James Street (fl. 1814-39) and described as being 'very easy to sit upon and appropriate for the library, parlour of sitting room of a Grecian villa', when illustrated by J. C. Loudon in his, Encyclopaedia of Furniture, 1833. It was also popularised by the important furniture wholesalers William Smee & Sons, of Finsbury Pavement in their, Designs of Furniture, catalogues 1850-55. This chair is likely to have formed part of Queen Victoria's furnishing of Buckingham Palace in the late 1840s. An inventory of the Palace was drawn up by Holland & Sons in 1866