By descent in the Brown family to the sitter’s grandson, Horatio Robert Forbes Brown [Greig 1911 gives the owner as H. Brown]. Mrs. William Hayward, New York, by 1924 when she consigned it to Knoedler’s, New York [according to letter of 6 January 1995 from Melissa de Medeiros, Knoedler]; sold by Knoedler to Marshall Field III, Huntington, Long Island, 1924 [according the letter cited above]; Evelyn Marshall Suarez, formerly Mrs. Marshall Field III (died 1979), Easton, near Syosset, Long Island and New York; bequeathed to the Art Institute in memory of her son, Marshall Field IV, 1980.