The sitter, Alexander Graydon [c. 1708-1761], Bristol, PA;[1] his wife, Rachel Marks Graydon [Mrs. Alexander Graydon, d. 1807], Philadelphia;[2] their son, Alexander Graydon, Jr. [1752-1818], Philadelphia;[3] his brother, William Graydon [1759-1840], Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;[4] his son, Henry Murray Graydon [d. 1900], Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;[5] his daughter, Julia Graydon [d. 1954], Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;[6] sale of her estate, 28 October 1954, at her Harrisburg residence; bought by (Edgar H. Sittig, Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA);[7] sold 8 November 1954 to Colonel Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1966 to NGA. [1] For his biography see Alexander Graydon, Jr. _Memoirs of His Own Time_ (Philadelphia, 1846, reprinted by the New York Times and the Arno Press, 1969 as _Alexander Graydon's Memoirs of His Own Time_, John Stockton Littell, ed.), 18-19, 33-35. Much of this information is also in Graydon's _Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passsed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty Years_ (Edinburgh, 1822) and his _Life of an Officer, Written by Himself During a Residence in Pennsylvania_, Edinburgh, 1828. [2] For her biography see Alexander Graydon, Jr. _Memoirs of His Own Time_ (Philadelphia, 1846, reprinted by the New York Times and the Arno Press, 1969 as _Alexander Graydon's Memoirs of His Own Time_, John Stockton Littell, ed.), 20, 409. [3]_Dictionary of American Biography_ 4, part 1: 524-525. [4]_Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography_, James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., revised edition, 6 volumes (New York, 1898-1899), 2: 732; Mary Ellen Graydon Sharpe, _A Family Retrospect_ (Indianapolis, 1909), 20-21. [5] Sharpe 1909, 24-25 mentions that he died "a few years ago," and does not mention his daughters. [6] Her sister Alice Graydon [d. 1948], Harrisburg, Pa. may have been joint owner of the portrait. [7]Letter from Edgar Sittig to William P. Campbell, 27 August 1971 (NGA curatorial file).