Recorded as from Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Descended in the family of the sitter, probably to her sister-in-law, Delilah Gustin Hunter; probably to her son, William Hunter, Sr.; to his daughter, Emily Frances Hunter (Mrs. George Cross); to her daughter, Mrs. Daisy (Cross) Somers; to her cousin, Katherine Mahon Hunter;[1] by whom sold in 1961 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1971. [1] According to Jessie Hunter, the wife of William Hunter, a descendant of Katherine (Katy) Mahon Hunter, Daisy Somers was cleaning out her attic and had decided only to keep the frame of the portrait. She had already placed the canvas with a pile of things to be burned. Katy Hunter rescued the portrait and brought it home with her. (Undated curator's notes from conversation with Jessie Hunter, in NGA curatorial file.