In this portrait, William Merritt Chase depicted his adolescent daughter Alice Dieudonnée Chase posed in a commanding stance and wearing a gray coat and capotain, or Pilgrim hat, with a decorative buckle. Such garments, modeled after seventeenth-century English Puritan dress, were worn by American men and women from the 1890s until the early twentieth century. The popularity of such fashions reflects the era’s widespread fascination with America’s colonial roots.