According to Mr. Frederick Baker, the present work was a demonstration piece, painted for a class attending the final summer of the Shinnecock Summer School of Art in Southampton, New York. A photograph of A Lady in Red, which was given to the Chase Archives of The Parrish Art Museum by Ronald G. Pisano, has a reference to Miss Hall on the reverse, who is the likely sitter.

According to Mr. Frederick Baker, this portrait is included in Ronald G. Pisano's The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. II, no. 360, to be published in April 2007.