Background
He was born about 1767, exhibited thirteen pictures, chiefly portraits of racehorses and their owners, at the Royal Academy, 1801-1812 and 1818-1819.
He was born about 1767, exhibited thirteen pictures, chiefly portraits of racehorses and their owners, at the Royal Academy, 1801-1812 and 1818-1819.
He was a follower of George Stubbs and studied under Lemuel Abbott for a short period of time.
After 1792, he began painting animals, settling at Newmarket in 1812 near the racetrack. His portraits of sporting characters included those of J. G. Shaddick, 1806, and Daniel Lambert, 1807. Sixty paintings of sportsmen, horses, and dogs by Marshall were engraved by John Scott for Wheble"s Sporting Magazine, volumes vii-lxxxi., and eight types of horses by Marshall, also engraved by Scott, appeared in The Sportsman"s Repository, 1820.
Marshall"s exhibited and engraved works represent but a small proportion of the commissions which he carried out for patrons of the turf and masters of hounds throughout the country.
A number of his pictures of horses are in the collection of Sir Walter Gilbey. About 1800-1810, Marshall was living at 23 Beaumont Street, Marylebone.
He had various later addresses in London, but was often described as "Marshall of Newmarket," where he chiefly lived. He died in the Hackney Road, at the age of sixty-eight, on 24 July 1835.