Physical Dimensions: overall: 75.3 x 62.3 cm (29 5/8 x 24 1/2 in.)
framed: 87.3 x 74.6 x 3.8 cm (34 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Sophie Cuthbert Aspinwall [Mrs. Woolsey Aspinwall], Washington;[1] her son, John Cuthbert Aspinwall, Norfolk, Virginia; sold to (Eunice Chambers, Hartsville, South Carolina);[2] purchased January 1955 by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1965 to NGA.
[1] Mrs. Aspinwall told the Frick Art Reference Library in 1928 that the portrait and the pendant of Mrs. Cuthbert [1965.15.7] had always been owned by members of the Cuthbert family of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina. The correct names and relationships of members of the Cuthbert and Aspinwall families were provided by their cousin Middleton Train of Washington, who confirmed the spelling of Mrs. Aspinwall's first name as "Sophie"; telephone conversation, 29 December 1989. (Margaret Simons Middleton, _Jeremiah Theus: Colonial Artist of Charles Town_, Columbia, SC, 1953: 195, listed her incorrectly as Mrs. Clarence A. Aspinwall.)
[2] Letter from the Frick Art Reference Library, 19 December 1989.