Robert Graham [1744-1836]; bequeathed to Sir George Henry Smyth [1784-1852], 6th baronet, Berechurch Hall, Colchester, Essex;[1] bequeathed to his grandson and heir, Thomas George Graham White [d.1878], Wethersfield Manor and Berechurch Hall, Colchester, Essex; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 23 March 1878, no. 25); bought by "Graves".[2] Martha Babcock Greene Amory [Mrs. Charles Amory, 1812-1880], Boston, the artists's granddaughter;[3] her husband, Charles Amory [1808-1898], Boston;[4] their daughter, Susan Greene Amory Dexter [Mrs. Franklin Gordon Dexter, 1840-1924], Boston;[5] her son, Gordon Dexter [1864-1937], Boston;[6] his widow, Isabella Hunnewell Dexter [c. 1871-1968];[7] gift 1942 to NGA. [1] Robert Graham's will, dated 12 May, 19 September and 25 October 1833 and 21 September 1836, was proved on 15 October 1836 (Public Record Office, London; copy in NGA curatorial files). [2] _Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures of Thomas George Graham White, Esq., Deceased_, sale, Christie Manson & Woods, London, 23 March 1878, 6. "Graves is listed as the purchaser in the annotated copy of the catalogue at Christies, copy in NGA curatorial files, and by Algernon Graves, _Art Sales From Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century_, 3 vols. (London, 1908-1921), 1:149. He may be the London dealer Henry Graves (1806-1892). Augustus Thorndike Perkins, _A Sketch of the Life of and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1873), 129, listed the portrait among the paintings by Copley in England, but did not give the owner's name. [3] Martha Babcock Amory, _The Domestic and Artistic Life of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1882), 239, note (published after Mrs. Amory's death in 1880). For Mrs. Amory's dates see John William Linzee, _The Linzee Family of Great Britain and the United States of America_, 2 vols. (Boston, 1917), 2:766. [4] Augustus Thorndike Perkins, _Supplementary List of Paintings by John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, after 1873), 18-19; for Charles Amory's dates see Linzee 1917, 2:766. [5] Frank W. Bayley, _A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1910), 43; and _The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1915), 122; for Mrs. Dexter's birthdate see Linzee 1917, 2:781-782; her death date is in "Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society" (meeting of 1 April 1925), _The New England Historical and Genealogical Register_ 74 (July, 1925), 325. [6] Theodore Bolton and Harry Lorin Binsse, "John Singleton Copley," _The Antiquarian_ 15 (December 1930): 116; for Dexter's dates see _Who Was Who in America_, vol. 1, _1897-1942_ (Chicago, 1966), 320. [7] Mrs. Dexter died at the age of 97, in New York City (obituary, _The New York Times_, 16 December 1968, 47).