(Rose M. de Forest, New York); sold 16 November 1930 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York, as a portrait of Jonathan Law by Peter Pelham;[1] sold by Clarke's executors to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 29 January 1936, as part of the Clarke collection, by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] The provenance from Anne Law Hall, daughter of the supposed sitter, supplied by the dealer, de Forest, cannot be verified. A label pasted to the back of the stretcher reads: "Portrait of Governor/Jonathan Law which has/always been in the possesion [sic]/of my family in direct decent [sic]/Henry H. Peck." Henry Higgins Peck [b. 1826], of Norwich, Connecticut, was the penultimate name in the provenance supplied by de Forest. However, a letter in the NGA curatorial files of 5 February 1930 (shortly after Clarke's impending acquisition was announced in the press), from Mary F. Law of Santa Barbara, a lineal descendant, states: "it was not known in the Law family that any portrait of the Governor was in existence."