Lot 450
Nicola Marschall (Kentucky-Alabama, 1829-1917), Napoleon Lockett, 1883, oil on canvas, signed, dated 1883 and inscribed Xmas lower left 24 in. x 20 in., in a period giltwood frame. E1500-2500 Note: A native of Prussia, Nicola Marschall immigrated to Mobile, Alabama where he established himself as the city's most celebrated portrait artist. In a 1905 newspaper interview with the artist, he stated that Mrs. Napoleon Lockett, a beautiful Southern woman of an old Virginia family and the wife of a wealthy planter_ came to me one day and said ‘Mr. Marschall, we have seceded, and the Confederate Government wants a flag. Will you make a design? It must not be too unlike the U.S. Flag but different enough to be distinguished at a distance. Marschall made three different designs, with the Stars and Bars design being selected for the Confederate flag. Marschall painted this posthumous portrait of Napoleon Lockett (1813-1867) in 1883. During the 1860s, Marschall was commissioned to paint the portraits of both Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Lockett. Ref: Hoffman, Roy, When a Banner was Born, Mobile Register, January 4, 2004.
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