Dr. George C. Mendenhall, Cincinnati, after 1877; to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Mendenhall; to her daughter, Mrs. George P. Stimson; to her niece, Mrs. W.E. Stilwell, Jr.;[1] (Kennedy Galleries, New York), by 1962; purchased 30 October 1968 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The Corcoran's accession record sheet, in NGA curatorial files, records that Dr. Mendenhall "received [the painting] as bill from a patient." This was meant to be recorded as "received [the painting] _from a patient in payment of a bill_." See: "Important American Still Life and Portrait Paintings," _The Kennedy Quarterly_ 3, no. 3 (December 1962): 117. Dr. Mendenhall was a Cincinnati physician.