Possibly Mary B. Hazelhurst Mason. Acquired 24 February 1925 by Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co, New York), to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA. [1] The provenance of this object is unclear. A circa 1954 note (in NGA curatorial files) includes it in a list of Clarke collection objects that came through the dealer Augustus de Forest and that bore false signatures in red paint; however, other Clarke collection records do not list this work as a de Forest painting. Further file notes indicate that it was "said to be from the collection of Mary Hazelhurst [sic], Westtown, Pennsylvania, a niece of the sitter," but again no evidence exists. There are also letters dated 9 and 27 April 1925 (in NGA curatorial files) from Mary B. Hazlehurst Mason of Westtown concerning her aunt (the sitter) to Charles X. Harris (Clarke's agent), but their content concerns genealogy rather than purchase arrangements.