Commissioned by Queen Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), c. 1735/37 or King George II of Great Britain and Ireland (1683-1760), 1738; ? from the artist to Anne of Hanover (1709-1759), Stadhouderlijk Hof, Leeuwarden, c. 1739;{Mentioned in the 1764 inventory of the Stadhouderlijk Hof, see S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer (eds.), _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795_, vol. 3, The Hague 1976, p. 39, no. 177. The portrait is thought to have left Rysbrack’s atelier in or shortly after 1739, because in that year he felt the need to make a copy of it which he kept with him until his death, together with the original terracotta bust of George II from 1738, see Royal Collection, inv. nos. RCIN 1411 (Queen Caroline) and 1412 (King George II).} …; from the Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague, transferred to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1882;{Note RMA, inv. no. B-60.} transferred to the museum, March 1887
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