(Rose M. de Forest, New York); sold 23 November 1923 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Margaret Hamilton Allen by James Claypoole;[1] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), from whom it was purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift to NGA, 1947. [1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).The provenance through descendants of the supposed sitter and Collection of Julia Titus, Albany, N.Y., supplied by the dealer, de Forest, has been found suspect by archival research, as described in James W. Lane and Anna W. Rutledge, Report on the Clarke Collection, 1952, 40-46 and 54, in NGA curatorial files. An expertise by John Hill Morgan quoted in the curatorial file states: "Out. Same questionable Titus pedigree."