(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York);[1] purchased 2 March 1927 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection on 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] The provenance provided for this portrait by Mrs. de Forest was from the sitter's second wife Anne Watts Kennedy to her cousin Stephen de Lancey, North Salem, New York, to his wife Hannah Sackett de Lancey (1751-1836) and her descendants, to Julia Baldwin Titus (b. 1825), Geneva and Albany, New York. This provenance was given for thirteen portraits sold to Clarke by de Forest. No evidence has been found to support such a history for this group of paintings; see Anna Wells Rutledge and James W. Lane, "110 Paintings in the Clarke Collection," unpublished typescript, NGA, Department of Curatorial Records, 1952, 64. [2] The name of the seller and the date of purchase are recorded in a copy of _Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke_, Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). The receipt for payment is dated 2 March 1927 (NGA curatorial file).