A label preserved with the miniature identifies it as the eye of Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, half-sister to Queen Victoria, in line with its earliest mention in a Catalogue of Works of Art in the Audience Room, Windsor Castle (1914). However, portraits of Princess Feodora, such as Sir William Ross’s cabinet miniature of 1838 (420416), consistently show her with large brown eyes, casting doubt on this identification. Queen Mary’s identification of the sitter as Queen Victoria may
