Jacob Gerard Koch
Louisa Catherine Strobel
ca. 1830
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
2 3/4 x 2 in. (7 x 5.1 cm)
Classification
Painting, miniature
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006
Accession Number
2006.235.194
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Louisa Catherine Strobel · 1803–1883
Louisa Catherine Strobel was born in 1803 in Liverpool, England, to American diplomat Daniel Strobel Jr. and his wife Ann Church, during her father's posting there. The family, neighbors to the Gladstones—where young Louisa reportedly played with the future British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone's older brother—fled back to the United States amid the War of 1812 tensions, only to relocate ...