* Gilbert Stuart 1755-1828

John Jacobs, Chester County, Pennsylvania (said to have been presented to the Jacobs family in exchange for supplies furnished to Washington's troops during the Revolution)
Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Jacobs, Jr. (his great-grandson), Norristown, Pennsylvania
Jonce I. McGurk, New York, 1921 (acquired from the above)
G.M. Heckscher, Esq., New York (acquired from the above)
Metropolitan Galleries, New York, 1929
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nash Field, Chicago, Illinois, 1932
By descent to the present owner

Kansas City, Missouri, Findlay Galleries, Stuart to Henri, January-February 1935
Kansas City, Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, February 1935

Mantle Fielding, Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Washington, 1923, no. 91, p. 212
Lawrence Park, Gilbert Stuart, New York, 1926, vol. 2, no. 88, pp. 886-87
John Hill Morgan and Mantle Fielding, The Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1931, no. XXXVI, p. 328
Gustavus A. Eisen, Portraits of Washington, New York, 1932, vol. I, pp. 175, 180
Chicago Tribune, September 13, 1932, p. 11, illustrated
Denver Post; Detroit News; Milwaukee Journal; Oklahoma City Times; Omaha World Herald; San Antonio News; St. Paul Dispatch; St. Paul News; Syracuse Herald, September 13, 1942 
Oshkosh News; Salt Lake City Tribune, September 14, 1932
Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 15, 1932, p. 10
Chicago American, September 16, 1932, illustrated
The New York Times, September 25, 1932, illustrated
The Art News, December 24, 1932, pp. 3, 9, illustrated
The Chicago Daily News, January 5, 1935, p. 6, illustrated
The Art News, February 9, 1935, p. 8
Hobbies, February 1935, p. 20
Chicago Sunday Tribune, January 26, 1936, illustrated part 7, page 8

A volume of newspaper clippings and other documents relating to the history of this work will accompany the lot.