(Rose M. de Forest [Mrs. Augustus de Forest], New York);[1] sold 17 December 1926 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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 provenance provided by Mrs. de Forest was from the supposed sitter Oliver de Lancey's nephew Stephen de Lancey, North Salem, Massachusetts, to his wife Hannah Sackett de Lancey (1751-1836), who later married Isaac Baldwin, of Litchfield, Ct. and Pompey Hill, N.Y., then to his daughter Julia Titus (b.1825), Geneva and Albany, N.Y. The same false provenance to Julia Titus was used for thirteen paintings now in the Gallery's collection (see Anna W. Rutledge and James W. Lane, "110 Paintings in the Clarke Collection," manuscript, 1952, NGA curatorial files, 41-65.) Examination by Lane and Rutledge of documentary records of these individuals, including wills, inventories and other papers, turned up no mention of family portraits or of such an extensive family portrait collection. The provenance and identification are now regarded as fictitious.