Descended in the family of the artist.[1] Oglebay Institute-Mansion Museum, Wheeling, West Virginia, until 1959. (Joseph A. Stevens, Wheeling, West Virginia), by whom sold in 1959 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; by bequest to NGA (courtesy of Gwynn Garbisch McDevitt), 1980. [1] An inscription at the lower left of the canvas reads: _A Fari[s], 186[ ]_. Part of the last digit of the date is obliterated by fill; it may be a 0, 8, or 9.