Portrait of Isaac Shelby by Edward C. Nock, 1850. The portrait was displayed over the speaker’s desk in the Old State Capitol’s Senate chamber. KHS Collections.
A resolution of the Kentucky General Assembly providing for the purchase of a portrait of Governor Isaac Shelby was approved March 4, 1850. The sum of $400 “out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated” was to be paid to Edward Nock for the portrait he had painted that was then hanging in the Senate chamber. Shelby served as Kentucky’s first governor, 1792-96, and again, 1812-16. During his second term he raised 3,500 troops and led them to join General William Henry Harrison’s forces, where they fought in the Battle of the Thames in the War of 1812.
Portrait of Isaac Shelby by Edward C. Nock, 1850. The portrait was displayed over the speaker’s desk in the Old State Capitol’s Senate chamber. KHS Collections.
