Object
Artist and Role
Painters (artists): Marschall, Nicola (American, b.1829, d.1917)
Production date
Circa 1886
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Object detail
Accession Number
2014.54.156
Date
Circa 1886
Media
Signed
Signed, lower right [partially obscured]: "Nicola Ma"
Object Notes
Nicola Marschall (b.1829, d.1917) was born in St. Wendel, Rhenish Prussia, and immigrated to Alabama in 1849. He studied both painting and music in Rome, Florence, Naples, Paris, London, Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Munich before traveling to the Americas. Marschall was credited with designing the Confederate uniform and with the design of the first Confederate national flag. He also served in the Confederate army. Nearly a decade after the Civil War, he moved with his wife and three children to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1873 and opened a portrait studio at the southwest corner of Fourth and Green Streets. It was here where he painted many of the prominent works of his career. Marschall was a prolific painter, often traveling to Versailles, Lexington, and the South.
Researcher Notes
The subject is likely Eleanor Holmes Lindsay. The painting was likely created in the same time period as KOAR 2014.54.157 because of its style, artist, and subject matter. The painting itself has no written identification, however, the similarities of the subject's appearance and age of the painting to KOAR 2014.54.157 makes it likely a depiction of the daughter.
Eleanor Holmes Lindsay (1861-1934) was listed as the daughter of Sarah L. Jones Holmes. She is also remembered as the wife of Judge and Senator William Lindsay of Frankfort, whom she married in 1883. She was described as accomplished and charming and acted as Vice-President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. All four are buried in Frankfort Cemetery.
Eleanor Holmes Lindsay (1861-1934) was listed as the daughter of Sarah L. Jones Holmes. She is also remembered as the wife of Judge and Senator William Lindsay of Frankfort, whom she married in 1883. She was described as accomplished and charming and acted as Vice-President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. All four are buried in Frankfort Cemetery.
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Other ID
1954.29.7
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