The sitter's descendant, Elizabeth F.G. Heistand [Mrs. Henry S. Heistand, b. 1872], Marietta, Pennsylvania;[1] sold December 1947 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); bought that same month by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[2] gift 1964 to NGA. [1] _Loan Exhibition of Historical and Contemporary Portraits Illustrating the Evolution of Portraiture in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, under the auspices of The Iris Club and The Historical Society of Lancaster County...November 23, to December 13, 1912_, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1912, 7; William Sawitzky, "The American Work of Benjamin West", _Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography_ 62, no. 4 (October 1938): 451. According to Sarah McCorkle Case, _Bellmont, 1726 - Mt. Bethel, 1929_, Columbia, Pennsylvania?, 1929?: 19, this portrait and that of Mrs. Boude hung for many years at "Mt. Bethel," the Bethel family home in Columbia, Pennsylvania. Case recounts two family stories about the portraits: that they were recovered from a tavern, and that the damage to the eyes was caused by a bad-tempered child. [2] Letter from Melissa De Medeiros, librarian, M. Knoedler & Co., 30 October 1989, in NGA curatorial files.