Sold in or before 1858 by the artist's niece Margaretta Angelica Peale [1795-1882] to the artist's granddaughter Mary Jane Peale [1827-1902];[1] bequeathed to her sister-in-law Louise Harriet Hubley Peale [Mrs. Edward Burd Peale, b. 1839];[2] her daughter, Anna Frances Peale Carrier [Mrs. Frederick Carrier, 1860-1924]; sold on 5 December 1922 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[3] 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 1942 to NGA. [1] Mary Jane Peale, in her "List of Pictures I Own, 1884," noted "43 Gen De Haas one of Washington's Generals - by Chas W Peale. This I bought from Margaretta Peale" (Peale-Sellers Collection, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia). It is not known how Margaretta Peale obtained the painting; family lore later held that it was found in a Philadelphia attic (notes, William P. Campbell, 1957, in NGA curatorial file). The painting could be one of the "Pictures" left by de Haas to his wife Eleanor Bingham de Haas in his will, dated 21 February 1786. The inventory of the contents of his house, dated 13 July 1786, listed in the front parlor a "Mahogany Desk, Tea Table, Dining Table, 6 Chairs, 5 pictures &c." (Abram Hess, "The Life and Services of John Philip de Haas," in Lebanon County Historical Society, _Historical Papers and Addresses_ 7, no. 2 (February, 1916): 121, 124). [3] The picture is listed in the codicil to her will dated 6 September 1901: "To Louisa wife of my brother Edward Gen de Haas if not sold painted by my grandfather" (will, proved 29 May 1903, Register of Wills, Pottsville, Pennsylvania; photocopy in NGA curatorial file). [4] The name of the seller and the date of the purchase are recorded in a 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) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). The painting was apparently purchased through Art House, Inc. (see correspondence in NGA curatorial files). Mrs. Carrier stated in an interview with Wilfred Jordan, Curator at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, on 3 October 1917, that the "portrait had been in the possession of her immediate family since painted by Charles Wilson Peale ... She has known the portrait intimately for fifty-two years, it having formerly belonged to her mother" (Wilfred Jordan, "Notes of an Interview Under Date of October 3rd, 1917, with Mrs. Carrier, 406 S. 16th St., Philada.," typescript; copy, NGA curatorial file).