Provenance: Commissioned by the sitter's[1] husband, George Hunt Pendleton [1825-1889], Cincinnati; by inheritance to his daughter, Jane Frances Pendleton Brice [1860-1950, Mrs. Arthur tilghman Brice]; gift April 1936 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Alice Key Pendleton (1823-1886), born Mary Alice Lloyd Nevins Key, was one of five daughters of Francis Scott Key, a Maryland lawyer and author of the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," and the niece of Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. She married the politician and diplomat George Hunt Pendleton in 1846.