Given by the sitter to her son, Lorenzo Lewis [1803-1847], Audley, Clarke County, Virginia;[1] his widow, Esther Maria Coxe Lewis [1804-1885], Clarke County, Virginia; their son, Edward Parke Custis Lewis [1837-1892], Hoboken, New Jersey;[2] his son, Edwin Augustus Stevens Lewis [1870-1906], Hoboken, New Jersey; his widow, Alice Stuart Walker Lewis [1877-1973], Hoboken, New Jersey; their son, H. H. Walker Lewis [b. 1904], Baltimore;[3] gift 1974 to NGA. [1] An inscription in ink on the stretcher reads: "L. Lewis." A second reads: "For Lorenzo Lewis given by his Mother 1836." His dates and those of his wife and their descendants are found in _Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America_, 2nd ed., London, 1981, 21-22. [2] H. H. Walker Lewis to William P. Campbell, 29 November 1974, with a memo dated 28 November 1974 (NGA curatorial file). "Lorenzo left his household furnishings . . . for the use of his widow for life, thereafter to be divided among his six sons in equal shares. Esther Maria died in 1885, and in the autumn of 1888 the portraits were divided by drawing lots . . . we know of the disposition of the Nelly Custis portrait from a letter written to his wife by Edward Parke Custis Lewis, who was then Minister to Portugal: `Dear Mary . . . American mail just in & a letter from Dainger in which he tells me that I have drawn the Nellie Custis picture by Stuart . . . Yr. affect husband E.P.C.L.'" [3] On Mrs. Lewis' death, 22 November 1973, the painting went to her son H. H. Walker Lewis as "remainderman" under his father's will; memo of 28 November 1974 from Lewis to Campbell.