The artist; Mary Whitney Lawrence [La Farge's studio assistant]; Alden Sampson [died 1925]; his son Edward Sampson [died 1978]; sold at auction in Trenton, N. J. after Sampson's death; purchased by Jane S. Korbel; her sons Stephen and Andrew Korbel; gift to NPG 2001 James L. Yarnall, memo 13 March 2001 to Brandon Fortune NPG National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Stephen J. Korbel and Andrew H. Korbel, in memory of Jane S. and Rudolph J. Korbel