Saturday, January 15, 2011
That old paper was directly behind the portrait: “McKenna.” That name adds even more interest, and here’s why.
Moses Mielziner married Rosette Levald of Copenhagen in 1861. Seven of their children survived, and one was Leo Mielziner who became a well known artist in both Paris and in the United States, where two of his most famous “sitters” were Woodrow Wilson and Wilbur Wright. Leo married Ella Friend McKenna, a direct descendent of John Friend who arrived at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
