Purchased 1887 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] (his sale, Chickering Hall and American Art Galleries, New York, 14-18 February 1899, 1st day, no. 36); H. Staples Potter, Boston; probably by inheritance to his niece, Sibyl McKenzie Snyder [1880-1954; the third wife of Robert McClure Snyder, who lived 1852-1906], Kansas City, Missouri;[2] by inheritance to her son, Kenneth W. Snyder, Kansas City, Missouri; by inheritance to Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Chapman;[3] (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 May 1987, no. 81); (Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 30 October 1998 by NGA. [1] Clarke purchased the painting from the 1887 exhibition at the National Academy of Design. [2] Robert McClure Snyder's third wife, who he married in Boston on 1 January 1900, was the niece of H. Staples Potter, a prominent businessman in that city. Snyder died in 1906, and his widow not until 1954. Since it is known that Potter purchased the painting at the 1899 Clarke collection sale, and that it descended in the Snyder family, it is likely the family acquired it through Sibyl McKenzie's marriage to Robert Snyder. It is not known when Sibyl acquired the painting, nor when it passed to Kenneth W. Snyder and the subsequent generations of Snyders. See the Snyder family information given to Gertrude Grace Sill, the artist's biographer, by Peter L. Chapman (sent to Alan Shestack with a letter of 23 September 2002, copy in NGA curatorial files). [3] Peter L. Chapman is the great-grandson of Robert M. Snyder.