This portrait of Queen Charlotte in her coronation robe is a versions of Allan Ramsay's original state portrait of the royal couple housed in Buckingham Palace.
Numerous copies of the original portraits were shipped throughout Europe and the American colonies, where they helped establish and maintain political and social power for the British monarchs.
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