Joseph H. Davis (1811 - 1865)

Charlotte D. Chesswell by direct descent to Charlotte M. Chapman;

Frederick W. an Jean C. Fuessenich, Litchfield, Connecticut;

Colonel Edgar William Garbisch and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, Pokety Farms, Cambridge, Maryland;

William F. Carr Collection;

Bert and Gail Savage, Center Strafford, New Hampshire sold at the Triple Pier Show, New York 1986.

Gail Savage, Norbert H. Savage and Esther Sparks, Three New England Watercolor Painters, (Chicago, IL: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1974), Errata and Addenda no. 13;

Remi Spriggs, “Living with antiques: An Americana collection in New Jersey,” Magazine Antiques (April 2005), 94-105;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), pp. 225-6, fig. 394.

Charlotte Cheswell was the daughter of Paul Cheswell (1768-1832) and Nancy Durgin (1784-1837) of New Market, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Charlotte first married Greenleaf Dame and they had a daughter, Abby, who was born in 1850, but tragically Charlotte’s husband died two months later followed by the death of her daughter five months later. She then married Otis T. Hewins (1831- after 1870) and died in 1879 at the age of fifty-seven. Her portrait was inherited by her only surviving sister, Nancy Cheswell Chapman, and then passed to Nancy's daughter, Charlotte M. Chapman. Charlotte’s younger brother, Paul W. Chesswell (1828-1860), was also painted by J.H. Davis on August 28, 1837.