[1] It depicts Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative politician and future Prime Minister.

The same year Disraeli was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Tory Government of the Earl of Derby.

Grant was a fashionable portrait painter of the early Victorian era.

In 1866 he was elected to succeed Charles Lock Eastlake as President of the Royal Academy.

[3] Today the painting is in the collection of the National Trust at Disraeli's country residence of Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire, having been donated by the Disraelian Society in 1947.