This miniature seems to have been painted from life as there are no known comparable large-scale portraits. Princess Anne wears the same brooch and a similar hairstyle in Jacopo Amigoni's portrait of her in the Royal Collection (RCIN 405646).

Princess Anne was born on 2 November 1709 in Hanover, the second child and eldest daughter of George Augustus, Electoral Prince of Hanover, later George II of Great Britain, and his wife, Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach .When her grandfather was proclaimed King, Anne came to England with her mother and sisters, Amelia and Caroline, in September 1714. Contemporaries were impressed with her education; Mary, Countess Cowper, wrote that 'Princess Anne speaks, reads and writes German and French to Perfection, knows a great deal of History and Geography, speaks English very prettily and dances very well.' She married William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau (1711–51), in 1734. When William died in 1751, Anne became Governor of the United Provinces and guardian of her son William V. She died in 1759 and was buried at the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.

The identity of the artist is unknown.