National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust; gift to NGA 1942; transferred 1965 to NPG. Note: Knoedler’s identified this work with the version Healy painted for The Hone Club in 1846 and traced it afterwards to J. Watson Webb, who won a lottery for it; to his descendants, down to “Mrs. Hoppin.” According to research by Marcia Simon, Research Assistant NPG, 1966, after “Mrs. Hoppin” the painting was owned by Kraushaar Galleries [1921]; Mrs. J.E. Alexander, Lenox Mass.; and Thomas B. Clarke, who sold it to Knoedler’s.
