The present miniature was once cleaned and reframed by W. E. Drummond Young, Portrait Photographers located at 103 Princes Street, Edinburgh. A typed document on their headed paper refers to the portrait as 'Moira 1853', suggesting that the miniature may be dated, and possibly signed on the reverse. Another full-length miniature by Moira, signed on the reverse, depicting Lady Suffield, Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, and her child with a park landscape was sold Christie's, London, 29 November 1977, lot 109. Similarities between the two portraits indicate that the present sitter may also have been a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria.