Thomas Falcon Marshall (1818–1878) was an English artist, known as a painter in oils and watercolour. He painted both portraits and landscapes, and also history paintings.
Life
Marshall was born in
Liverpool, in December 1818, and he worked mainly there and in
Manchester. In the Liverpool Academy Exhibition of 1836 he showed four pictures. In 1840 he was awarded a silver medal by the Society of Arts for an oil-painting of a figure subject, and he exhibited for the first of many times at the
Royal Academy
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in 1839. Around 1847 he moved to London.
Marshall died in
Kensington
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on 26 March 1878.
Works
At the Royal Academy Marshall exhibited in all 60 works, at the
British Institute
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40 paintings, and 42 at the
Suffolk Street Gallery. He was also well represented at Liverpool and Manchester exhibitions. ''The Coming Footstep'' (1847) went to the national collection in South Kensington. ''Emigration – The Parting Day'' and ''Sad News from the Seat of War'' were other well-known examples of his work.
Family
Marshall was married. His wife, Amelia Jane, survived him, as did a son.
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1818 births
1878 deaths
English painters
British portrait painters
English watercolourists