Recorded as from Stonington, Connecticut. Descended in the family of the sitter.[1] (Victor Spark, New York), by whom sold in 1947 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA, 1980. [1] Although she was previously identified as Phebe Denison [1782-1853], genealogical records and the apparent age of the sitter suggest that this may be a portrait of Matilda [1776-1842], Phebe's older sister. In 1796 Matilda married Samuel Hurlbut, a ship chandler, ship owner, and merchant; they had ten children. Phebe and her husband W. J. Robinson also had ten children, and lived in Morristown, New Jersey. (E. Glenn Denison, et al., _Denison Genealogy, Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison_, [Stonington, Conn., 1963].)