An inscription on the reverse of this portrait miniature reads, "From James Peale the Artist to Jane Peale Simes His Daughter to Olivia Yeates Her Grand daughter to her cousin Horace Wells Sellers 1910 to his Sister Jessie Sellers Colton Christmas 1921" Charles Coleman Sellers' seminal 1939 biography on Charles Willson Peale was dedicated to Horace Wells Sellers.