The sitter [c. 1803-1888], Philadelphia;[1] (his estate sale, Stan V. Henckels, Philadelphia, 14 December 1920, no. 91); Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York; 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] Clarke collection research (in NGA curatorial files), gives Smith's birth date as 1804; Dale T. Johnson, _American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection_, Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990: 203, lists it as 1803; Rebecca J. Beal, _Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842_, Philadelphia, 1969: 223-224, dates it c. 1803.