Florence Scovel Shinn was the granddaughter of Francis and Ann Biddle Hopkinson, whose portraits by Thomas Sully are in the NGA collection (1942.8.32 and 1942.8.33). Her mother was the Hopkinson's daughter, Emily, who married Alden Cortlandt Scovel on August 23, 1866. Florence Scovel was the first wife of the painter Everett Shinn, whose work is represented in the NGA collection.