The sitter's great-grandson, James William Otis [1800-1869], New York;[1] his son, William Church Otis [1831-1889], Nahant, Massachusetts;[2] his son, Harrison Gray Otis [1856-1915], Nahant and Needham, Massachusetts;[3] his son, William Alleyne Otis [b. 1895], Boston;[4] his cousin, Robert Helyer Thayer [1901 1984] and Virginia Pratt Thayer [Mrs. Robert Helyer Thayer, d. 1979], Washington, D.C.;[5] gift 1976 to NGA. [1] The probable sequence of ownership was from the sitter to his daughter, Elizabeth Gray Otis to her son, Harrison Gray Otis [1765-1848], father of James William Otis, first owner of record; see William A. Otis, _A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America_ (Chicago, 1924), 106, 141, 202. This portrait shares its provenance with Copley's _Elizabeth Gray Otis (Mrs. Samuel Alleyne Otis)_ [NGA 1980.11.1] and Gilbert Stuart's _Samuel Alleyne Otis_ [NGA 1980.11.2]. [2] Augustus Thorndike Perkins, _A Sketch of the Life and a List of Some of the Works of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1873), 68; for William's dates see Otis 1924, 341. [3] Frank W. Bayley, _The Life and Works of John Singleton Copley_, (Boston, 1915), 123. For Harrison's dates and places of residence see Otis 1924, 495. Records in the registrar's office, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, show that the painting was owned from 1917 to 1926 by Robert H. Gardiner, Robert H. Gardiner, Jr., and William Tudor Gardiner (Jennifer Abel, letter, 14 November 1990, in NGA curatorial files), perhaps as trustees or executors of the estate of Harrison Gray Otis. [4] Barbara Neville Parker and Anne B. Wheeler. _John Singleton Copley: American Portraits in Oil, Pastel, and Miniature with Biographical Sketches_, (Boston, 1938): 88; for William's birthdate see Otis 1924, 608. [5] Otis 1924, 496. Robert Thayer's mother, Violet Otis Thayer, was Harrison Gray Otis's sister. The painting was delivered to Thayer by the Museum of Fine Arts on the authority of William A. Otis on 22 June 1949. For Thayer's dates see _Who's Who in America_, 38th ed. (Chicago, 1974), 3056, and _The New York Times Biographical Service_ 15 (1984), 143. The date of Mrs. Thayer's death is in the NGA curatorial file. Adrian Lamb painted a copy of this portrait in 1976 for the donors.