Henry Ward Sill [1809-1857], New York;[1] probably his sister, Sarah Hubbard Sill [1822-1897], Middletown, Connecticut;[2] his daughter, Sophia Matilda Sill Burt [Mrs. Charles Richard Burt, 1842-1922], Hartford, Connecticut;[3] her niece, Harriet Sill Baldwin Davison [Mrs. George W. Davison, 1873-1953], Greenwich, Connecticut;[4] gift 1942 to NGA. [1] The provenance was supplied by George W. Davison, who sent the history of the painting to the gallery at the time of the gift (document, NGA curatorial files, with letter dated 23 July 1942). He wrote that Sill, his wife's grandfather, purchased the portrait from Peale. On Sill see _Genealogy of the Descendants of John Sill, who settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1637_, Albany, 1859: 49-50, which describes him as a merchant. Biographical information on Sill and his descendants has been provided by Judith Ellen Johnson, Reference Librarian and Genealogist, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. [2] George Davison wrote in 1942 that after Sill's death the picture went to his "ancestral home" in Middletown, Connecticut. This undoubtedly occurred when Sill's three orphaned daughters, Hannah, Caroline and Sophia, returned with his mother Clarissa Sill and his sister Sarah Sill to Middletown; his wife had predeceased him. The U.S. Federal Census, Middlesex County, Middletown, Connecticut, 1860, 233, lists his mother, his sister, and his three daughters as living in Middletown. For Sarah's birth date, see _Genealogy of the Descendants of John Sill..._, 1859: 47; her death date was provided by the Middletown, Connecticut, Health Department to Judith Johnson. [3] Davison wrote in 1942 that Mrs. Burt took the portrait from Middletown to her home in Hartford in the 1890s. _Genealogy of the Descendants of John Sill..._, 1859: 50; Henry M. Burt and Silas W. Burt, _Life and Times of Henry Burt of Springfield and Some of his Descendants_, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1893: 570; "Sophia Matilda Sill Burt," Charles R. Hale Collection, Connecticut State Library, Hartford; Obituary, _Hartford Daily Times_, 21 March 1922, 20 (clipping, Morris Scrapbooks, vol. 124, 49). [4] On Mrs. Davison see Charles Candee Baldwin, _The Baldwin Genealogy, from 1500 to 1881_, Cleveland, 1881: 201; Charles Candee Baldwin, _The Baldwin Genealogy, Supplement_, Cleveland, 1889: 1025. Mrs. Davison's death date is included in Mr. Davison's obituary in _The New York Times_, 17 June 1953: 27.