The sitter's husband, Thomas Whittemore [1800-1861]; probably the sitter [d. 1882]; by descent to her grandson, Thomas Whittemore [1871-1950];[1] gift 1950 to NGA. [1] Following the death of her husband, Thomas Whittemore, in 1861, both the portrait and its pendant (NGA 1950.8.1, _Thomas Whittemore_) presumably remained in the possession of the sitter until her death in 1882, at which point they likely passed to her only surviving son, Joseph Whittemore [d. 1894] and subsequently to his wife, Elizabeth Whittemore [d. 1904] (who, in her husband's will, docket no. 37300, Middlesex County [Massachusetts] Probate Records, was named the recipient of all his personal property). Their sole surviving child was Thomas, the donor of both pictures to the NGA. See B.B. Whittemore, _A Genealogy of Several Branches of the Whittemore Family_, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1893: 27.