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Arthur Hardwick Marsh (27 January 1842 – 10 December 1909) was a British painter and

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who flourished during the late

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Early life

Born in 1842 in Fairfield in

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the son of Margaret and Edward Marsh, Arthur Marsh was a painter and watercolourist of genre scenes and landscapes.

Career

He originally trained as an architect but later travelled to London where he studied Art at the

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and the

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. Marsh exhibited in London from 1865 and was an Associate of the

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(ASRW) and a member of the

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(RBA). He spent a period working in

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before settling in

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. His 1887 painting ''Lighting the Beacon'' shows the role of working class women in guiding ships to shore. Other paintings include ''The Wayfarers'' (1879), ''The Turnip Cutter'' (1902), ''The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way'', ''The Worker'', ''The wreck of the Hesperus'' (1868), ''Lady Macbeth'' (1878) and ''In the Cottage Garden'' (1886). A stained-glass window attributed to him is in Holy Trinity Church in

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Personal life

In 1860 he married Juliana Phillis Glover (1839–1878) and with her had two daughters: Margaret Hannah Phillis Marsh (1877–1931) and Phillis Clara Sylvia Marsh (1877–1965). He married Ellen Hall (1863–1942) in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1884 and with her had a further five daughters: Nellie Wellesley Marsh (1885–1964); the militant British

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Charlotte Marsh Charlotte Augusta Leopoldine Marsh (3 March 1887 – 21 April 1961), known as Charlie Marsh, was a militant British suffragette. She was a paid organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union and is one of the first women to be force fed ...

(1887–1961),Elizabeth Crawford, ''The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928'', University College London Press (1999)
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, p. 381 Dorothy Hale Marsh (1890–); Margaret Marsh (1892–) and Lois Marsh (1895–1963). Arthur Hardwick Marsh died on 10 December 1909 in

aged 67 and was buried in St Andrew's Cemetery there. His daughter Charlotte was imprisoned and force fed 139 times for suffragette activity during his final illness and her release to see him was delayed even though the prison authorities knew of his terminal condition. In his will he left £601, 15s, 6d to his widow.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 – Arthur Hardwick Marsh (1910)

References

External links

Arthur Hardwick Marsh on Art UKWorks by Arthur Hardwick Marsh on Art Net
{{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Arthur Hardwick 1842 births 1909 deaths English watercolourists 19th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters Artists from Manchester 19th-century English male artists Members of the Royal Society of British Artists