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Nicola Marschall
American, born Prussia, 1829–1917
Nicola Marschall was a native of Prussia who arrived in the Port of New Orleans in 1849. He travelled to the Alabama Black Belt, where he set up as a portraitist depicting members of the planter families who lived in central Alabama. His portrait of J. Mack (John Marshall) Walker (1840-1864), a First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army, was a posthumous one, probably based upon a photographic carte de visite. Walker was a member of the family that owned Cedar Grove Plantation in Marengo County. He died May 24, 1864 as the result of a wound he received at the Battle of Resaca in Georgia.
American Paintings from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006, cat. no. 12, p. 56.
American, born Prussia, 1829–1917
First Lieutenant J. Mack Walker, C.S.A.
1865
Object Type:
Painting
Creation Place:
North America, American, Alabama
Dimensions:
90 1/2 in. x 39 3/4 in. (229.87 cm x 100.97 cm)
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Accession Number:
1938.0001
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hopson Owen
Nicola Marschall was a native of Prussia who arrived in the Port of New Orleans in 1849. He travelled to the Alabama Black Belt, where he set up as a portraitist depicting members of the planter families who lived in central Alabama. His portrait of J. Mack (John Marshall) Walker (1840-1864), a First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army, was a posthumous one, probably based upon a photographic carte de visite. Walker was a member of the family that owned Cedar Grove Plantation in Marengo County. He died May 24, 1864 as the result of a wound he received at the Battle of Resaca in Georgia.
American Paintings from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 2006, cat. no. 12, p. 56.
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