Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Marcella)
Description:
Bust length portrait of a young woman in profile facing to the right her left hand gathering a shawl around her naked shoulders.
Location:
Present Whereabouts Unknown
In the Copyright files of the Library of Congress there is a photograph of this picture copyrighted by Muller-Ury in 1891 and presumably painted that year, together with another called ‘Rose’ [on the back: Copyright Deposit, Mar 9 -91, W1, W2, 8930, 8931, Muller-Uri].
It is just possible that the picture’s title refers to St Marcella 325-410, on whom Frances Eastwood had published a popular book ‘Marcella of Rome: A Tale of the Early Church’ in 1870, though no attributes of the saint are visible.
