 The painting was the first that Sargent submitted to the Paris Salon.Through his son Robert, he was the grandfather of Josephine Lucy Grinnell (1877–1957), who married Fredrick Harold Van Rensselaer (1874–1903), a grandson of U.S. Representative Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, in 1898.After his death of cerebro meningitis, she married the actor Harold Rogers Woolf (1880–1953), nephew of Benjamin Edward Woolf, in 1905.