Provenance
the sitter, Boston (ca. 1815-d. 1871)
his daughter, Mrs. William (Anna) Amory, Boston (1871-81)
subscribers to a fund for its presentation to the museum: Cyrus W. Field, Henry F. Spaulding, William E. Dodge, Collis P. Huntington, Joseph W. Drexel, Robert Gordon, William Loring Andrews, Richard Butler, Samuel Sloan, Tracy R. Edson (1881)