By descent in the family of the sitter, from Timothy and Rebecca (Taylor) Orne; to their daughter Esther (Orne) and John Clarke; to her sister Rebecca (Orne), the sitter, and Joseph Cabot; to their daughter Rebecca Orne Cabot; to her nephew, Joseph S. and Susan (Burley Howes) Cabot; to his cousin Josephine (Rose Lee) and William Gurdon Saltonstall; to their son Robert and Caroline (James Stevenson) Saltonstall, by 1897; to their daughter Harriet (Lee Saltonstall) and William H. Gratwick, Jr., by 1943. Purchased from Mrs. Gratwick, 1971