Like the portrait of FerdinandVI, this one is closely related to the official portraits of the king and queen currently kept at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, painted by Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771). In this case, the jewellery and the dress are repeated with slight variations, although there are changes in the background.

Like its pair, this piece underwent changes. It entered the bank’s collection with both sitter and painter wrongly identified—as a portrait of Marie de’ Medici, again attributed to Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779)―probably also due to a no longer existing label on the back from

 Caja General de Reparaciones de daños derivados de la guerra civil 

(Compensations Fund for Civil War Damages) was an organisation created on 23 September 1936 by the government of the Second Republic presided by Largo Caballero. Its goal was to confiscate the goods of citizens who supported the military uprising on 18 July. The Caja General seized a great quantity of assets, both movable and immovable, including many works of art from private collections.

(Compensations Fund for Civil War Damages).

In this official portrait the queen, daughter of John V of Portugal (1689-1750) and Maria Anna of Austria (1683-1754), is portrayed ostentatiously with her features embellished. The painter displayed his mastery in representing the overall scene with a dazzling wealth of fabrics and jewellery, disguising the pockmarks on her face while highlighting her good-natured expression, the queen’s best attribute.