Notes
The 4/26/1925 MJ (attached) reports provenance for the work:
"The common council in 1850 [made an appropriation] for the Books [sic] portrait of Milwaukee's first mayor" (the original by Brookes & Stevenson, dated 1857, in the Mayor's Office).
"A few years later [presumably 1872, the date on the work] Hugo Broich, photographer and painter, copied the fine portrait."
"A group of stockholders of the Bank of Commerce purchased it."
Stockholders of the Bank of Commerce presented the portrait in 1883 (to the Milwaukee Public Library).
There is also a reference to a photographic ("potographic" [?]) copy of the Brookes & Stevenson portrait made for Common Council chambers in 1872, the date on the Broich portrait, but it is not clear whether that is this work, a possible third version of this portrait, or incorrect information.