Commissioned 1860 by Thomas B. Bryan [1828-1906], Chicago;[1] purchased 1879 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;[2] acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] Letter, Thomas B. Bryan to Abraham Lincoln, 10 November 1860, published in Marie de Mare, _G.P.A. Healy, American Artist_, New York, 1954: 190-191. [2] Letter, W.W. Corcoran to G.P.A. Healy, 3 May 1879 (William W. Corcoran Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington).