page_title: Nicolai Jacob Marstrand
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Nicolai Jacob Marstrand / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Petra Ottilia Marstrand, wife of Nicolai Jacob Marstrand
context_page_description: Nicolai Jacob Marstrand was a Danish mechanician and inventor. He was the father of painter Wilhelm Marstrand.
context_section_description: Marstrand married Petra Ottilia Smith (28 February 1778 - 15 November 847), a daughter of provost Troels S. (1744-1823) and Anna Agnete Plum (1752-1805), on 26 September 1804 in Holbæk. Five of their seven children survived childhood: Navel officer Osvald J. Marstrand, plantation owner Otto Marstrand, baker and politician Troels Marstrand, painter Wilhelm Marstrand and toolmaker Tgeodor Marstrand.
  Marstrand's home was a meetingplace for many notable artists and writers of the time. Once a week, he hosted a quartet in which he played the violin and the painter C. W. Eckersberg played cello.
  In 1809, he was awarded Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn. In 1811 he was appointed as Kommerceråd. He died on 12 July 1829 and is buried in Assistens Cemetery.
caption: Petra Ottilia Marstrand
exif: {}