Describe the characteristics of the Provenance in this artwork's History.
After Mrs. Hammersley's death in 1902, her husband kept the painting until 1923, when financial troubles compelled him to sell the work.  At the suggestion of Sargent, it was purchased by Charles Deering (1852–1927), an American whose portrait Sargent had painted in Newport, Rhode Island in 1876, and who collected Sargent's works.The painting is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Charles Deering Newport, Rhode Island Metropolitan Museum of Art