SAMUEL WALDO AND WILLIAM JEWETT | PORTRAIT OF STEPHEN ALLEN

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1974

First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1975 (acquired from the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2004

New York, National Academy of Design, A Century and a Half of American Art, 1975, p. 124, illustrated 

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1767, Stephen Allen served as the mayor of New York City from 1821-24. He died in the sinking of the Henry Clay, the deadliest steamship disaster on the Hudson River in history, in 1852.