Oil on canvas, unsigned, bust length portrait of Rebecca Tevis Hart (1844-1917), great-granddaughter of Governor Isaac Shelby and mistress of Hartland Farm (now Pin Oak Farm) while married to Colonel William Preston Hart (1865-1917). Housed in the original gilt frame with spandrels and Louisville gallery stencil on the verso.

SS 26.5 x 21.5 in.; DOA 38 x 33 in.

Nicola Marschall designed the Stars & Bars, the official flag of the Confederacy, and the gray uniform of the Southern army, in March 1861. Born in 1829 in St. Wendel, Germany, he came to the United States in 1849, settling in Alabama. He painted many portraits of prominent citizens, along with the great luminaries of his time - Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln, and other presidents. He moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1873 where he established a painting studio. He died in Louisville in 1917.

$1,500 - 2,500