The sitter is identified as 'Miss Spiers' in the Silvy daybooks, where the following entry is her mother, Mrs, Spiers. In the album in which the carte was found, she was identified as 'Eliza Speirs.'

The album belonged to Elizabeth Van de Weyer, wife of the Belgian ambassador to the Court of St. James. All the following cartes on this page, and on the following page, are from her album.