Provenance
The sitter's son, Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), Brooklyn, New York
his daughter, Julianna Aspinwell Tappan (born 1816), Brooklyn, New York
bequeathed to her sister, Ellen A. A. Hulett (died 1906), Newburgh, New York
bequeathed to her daughter, Margaret Hulett (died 1947), Newburgh, New York, and Washington, D.C.
sold to John F. Braun, Merion, Pennsylvania
purchased in 1933 by Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1852-1935), New York, New York, and Woodstock, Connecticut
his daughter, Roxana Wentworth Bowen, Lady Gordon Vereker (1895-1968), Valbonne, France
bequest 1970 to NGA