Lucy Work (1842-1934) was the daughter of Frank Work and Ellen (Wood) Work. Her father was a wealthy merchant and financier from Ohio. She married Dr. Hewitt in New York in 1887, but they were divorced in 1918. Dr. Hewitt, a scientist and electrical inventor, and the grandson of Peter Cooper, died in 1921; he was the son of Abram Stevens Hewitt (d. 1903), a U.S. congressman and mayor of New York.

Rosalie DeWolfe (Anthony) Post was one of the leaders of New York society in the 1890s and after the turn of the century. She was the daughter of Charles L. Anthony and the sister of Louise Anthony (Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt), and was active in philanthropic work. She married William Post in 1864.

Emily Oliver Post was the daughter of Edwin Augustus and Margaret Oliver (Gibbes) Post. She married George Griswold, Jr. (1857-1917) in 1886.

The subject was one of four daughters of Charles R. and Mary (Irving) Huntington, and a granddaughter of Daniel Huntington (1816-1906), the noted portrait painter and president of the National Academy of Design. She married John C. Travis in 1916.

Carolina Washington Bond, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was the daughter of Frances H. Washington Bond, and the great-great-grandniece of George Washington.

Jane P. Sargent of New Orleans was married to New York businessman William B. Duncan (1830-1912) in 1853.

Alice Gordon Troth of Philadelphia was the daughter of William Penn Troth and Clara Sharpless (Townsend) Troth. Her husband was the son of Anthony J. Drexel, founder of the Drexel Insitute in Philadelphia.

Anna Hall, the mother of Eleanor Roosevelt, was the eldest daughter of Valentine Gill Hall and Mary Livingston (Ludlow) Hall. She was married to Elliott Roosevelt (1860-1894), brother of the future president Theodore Roosevelt, in 1883. Eleanor Roosevelt opened her autobiography with the declaration: "My mother was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen." She elaborated, "Old Peter Marié, who gave choice parties and whose approval stamped young girls and young matrons a success, called my mother a queen, and bowed before her charm and beauty, and to her this was important." Katherine Behenna successfully captured Anna Roosevelt's beauty and charm in this intimate portrait.

Susan Macomb was the daughter of Alexander Saranac Macomb and Susan (Watts) Macomb, and the granddaughter of General Alexander Macomb. In 1872 the subject was married to Frederic Sears Grand d'Hauteville, the son of Paul D. G. Grand d'Hauteville of Switzerland and Ellen Sears of Boston.