Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Portrait |
Catalog Number |
1954.29.7 |
Creator |
Marschall, Nicola |
Maker |
Marschall, Nicola |
Date |
ca. 1886 |
Material(s) |
Canvas |
Dimensions |
H-30.063 W-25 D-0.75 inches |
Description |
This is a bust portrait that is likely Eleanor Holmes Lindsay. The portrait depicts a middle aged woman with her brown hair pulled back in likely a bun. A few strands of hair appear to be escaping in the back. She has grey eyes and small pink lips on a full chin. She is wearing a black bodice that has small buttons down front. On her upturned collar she is wearing a gold stickpin with five pearls. She appears to also be wearing some small loop earrings in her visible ear. The background is composed of varying splashes of blue and green. These colors have been trimmed into oval with brown. Fainting there is a signature at the bottom of the portrait near here left sleeve that obscurely reads, "Nicola Ma..." |
Notes |
The painting was likely created in the same time period 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 1954.29.8 makes it likely a depiction of the daughter. Eleanor Holmes Lindsay (1861-1934) was listed as the daughter of Sarah L. Jones Holmes (1954.29.8). She is also remembered as the wife of Judge and Senator William Lindsay of Frankfort whom she married in 1883. She was the 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. Nicola Marschall (1829-1917) was born in St. Wendel Rhenish Prussia, immigrated to Alabama in 1849. Marschall was credited with designing the first Confederate national flag. He moved to Louisville in 1873 and opened a portrait studio. He was a prolific painter, and studied both painting and music in Rome, Florence, Naples, Paris, London, Berlin, Dusseldorf and Munich before traveling to the Americas. He was credited with designing the Confederate uniform and with the design of the first confederate flag. He also served in the Confederate army. A decade after the Civil War, he moved to Louisville, Kentucky with his wife and three children 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. |
Collection |
KHS Museum Collection |
People |
Marschall, Nicola, 1829-1917 Lindsay, Eleanor Holmes |
Subjects |
Art Oil paintings Painting Paintings Portrait paintings Portraits Women Women domestics |
Search Terms |
Frankfort (Ky.) |
Physical Holder |
Kentucky Historical Society - KHS |