Louisa Catherine Strobel

Louisa C. Martin, née Strobel was an American painter of portrait miniatures.
She was the daughter of a US diplomat and was born in Liverpool while her father Daniel Strobel was assigned there. On the outbreak of the War of 1812 the family returned to the United States, only to leave a few years later for Bordeaux, where they stayed until 1830. It is in Bordeaux that Louisa Strobel was taught to paint, though it is unknown who her teacher was. Her style is reminiscent of the work of the Franco-American miniature painter Louis Antoine Collas, but there is no evidence they ever met. The museum in Bordeaux has many similar miniature portraits by anonymous painters, so it is possible there was a school there of some sort. Like many well-to-do young women painters of her time, she was not commercially active and her works were kept in the family.
According to her "memorial" written by Samuel D.