It depicts her fellow artist Richard Parkes Bonington.

He enjoyed success at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1828 but died a few months later of tuberculosis at the age of twenty five.

[1] He was a friend of Carpenter, a noted portraitist of the Regency and early Victorian era.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1877.

[4] A copy of the mezzotint version of the work by John P. Quilley is also in the collection.