There is another drawing of Queen Charlotte by John Downman which is inscribed on the reverse by the artist: 'Her Majesty of England, 1783 1st sitting. She was Sophia Charlotte, Princess of Mecklenburg - Strelitz. She sat in the Queen's closet, Buckingham House. His Majesty came in with Lords North and Grantham and two others. Presently the two eldest Princesses. The King said to the Princess Royal, 'Are you prepared to sit ?'. This turned all eyes to her, as she was directly opposite the light, and occasioned the most beautiful suffusion of bloom I ever saw, and they certainly were at that time two of the most beautiful of persons. I also drew their portraits and grouped in whole lengths, and a whole length of the Queen for the Duchess of Ancaster, and two others"