(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York); purchased 9 May 1922 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] The name of the seller and the date of the purchase by Clarke are recorded in an annotated copy of _Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke_ (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) in files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (transcription in NGA curatorial records and copy in NGA library). According to de Forest, the painting was purchased from the estate of Abraham Van Buren, son of President Martin Van Buren. Although Kemble and Martin Van Buren were friends, Abraham Van Buren's ownership of this portrait is unverified. His will (copy in NGA curatorial files) makes no mention of the painting.