Marshall Claxton b. 1813 Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK

Also known as Marshal Claxton
  • Artist (Photographer) , (Sculptor) , (Painter)
Painter, modeller and amateur photographer born in England. Resident of NSW and Victoria he was a prolific painter and 'national benefit'. He is represented in the collections of many of Australia and England's major public galleries.
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Name
Marshall Claxton
Also known as Marshal Claxton
Birth date
1813
Birth place
Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Death date
28 July 1881
Death place
155 Carlton Road, Maida Vale, London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Photographer)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Painter)
Residence
  • 1859- 28 July 1881 London, England, UK
  • c.22 September 1854- c.1859 Calcutta (Kolkotta), India
  • c.1853 Banyule, Heidelberg, Melbourne, VIC
  • September 1850- 22 September 1854 Sydney, NSW
  • 1840- September 1850 England, UK
  • c.1837- c.1840 Rome, Italy
  • c.1813- c.1837 Bolton, Lancashire, England, UK
Arrival
  • September 1850 (Sydney, NSW.)
Active Period
  • 1838- 1881
Languages
  • English
Training
  • c.26 April 1831- c.1837 Royal Academy Schools, London, England, UK
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

painter, modeller and amateur photographer, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, son of Rev. Marshall Claxton, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and his wife Diana.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011
associate of
John Alexander Jackson
1809
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Lady Henrietta Stephen
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Joseph Backler
1813
parent of
Florence Claxton
1838
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
parent of
Adelaide Claxton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
T. P. Hargrave
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Lionel Cust
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Baroness Angela Burdett-Coutts
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Rev. Marshall Claxton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
child of
Diana Claxton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
spouse of
Sophia Claxton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
A. B. Spark
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Bishop William Grant Broughton
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Rev. William Cowper
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Rev. Robert Forrest
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Dr James Mitchell
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Sir John Nodes Dickinson
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Dangars
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Hargreaves
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Family Butler
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Mrs Hugh Chambers
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Daniel Cooper
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
A. M. a'Beckett
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Saul Lyons
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Alexander Terry
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
E. Webb
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
parent of
Florence Claxton
1838
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Myra Felton
1835
Artist (Mixed Media Artist), Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Adelaide Eliza Ironside
1831
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Conrad Martens
1801
Artist (Draughtsman), Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Richard Noble
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Henry Robinson Smith
Artist (Painter)
associate of
George Stevens
Artist (Photographer), Artist (Painter)
associate of
Frederic Casemero Terry
1825
Artist (Printmaker), Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator), Artist (Painter)
associate of
John Thompson
1800
Artist (Draughtsman)
associate of
Royal Academy
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
St Stephen's, Rochester Row
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Royal Academy Schools
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Sydney College
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Art Union of London
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Victorian Fine Art Society
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
Portrait of the Last Queen of the Aborigines
The Grandmother
The Free Seat
Mother of Moses
The Tangled Skein
The Sisters, Lady Godiva
(Female members of the Butler family from Tasmania)
(the Hargreaves)
(the Dangars)
Lady Stephen
The Entombment of our Saviour
Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper
The Burial of Sir John Moore
Christ Blessing the Little Children
An Emigrant's Thoughts of Home
Date
1859
Scene at a Ghaut on the Bank of the Ganges
Date
1857
Portrait of Captain Cook
Date
1854
A Bush Funeral
Date
1854
Dr James Mitchell
Date
1854
Rev. Robert Forrest, headmaster of The King's School
Date
1854
Rev. William Cowper
Date
1854
General View of the Harbour and City of Sydney, Australia
Date
1853
Mrs Hugh Chambers and her daughter
Date
1853
Bishop William Grant Broughton
Date
1852
Learning, a Female Figure Seated under a Southern Cross
Date
1851
John Nodes Dickinson and his family
Date
1851
Spenser Reading the 'Faerie Queene' to his Wife and Sir Walter Raleigh
Date
1847
(Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna)
Date
1847
The Building of Oxford University
Date
1844
The Death of Abel
Date
1844
Alfred in the Camp of the Danes
Date
1843
The Sepulchre
Date
1843
Sir Joshua Reynolds and his Friends
Date
1843
Othello
Date
1842
The Deathbed of John Wesley
Date
1842
The Vicar of Wakefield
Date
1840
English, French, and German Artists Resting at the Hermitage after the Ascent from Mount Vesuvius; from a Sketch Taken on the Spot
Date
1839
Lady Jane Grey in the Tower Refusing to Accede to the Roman Catholic Faith
Date
1839
(Portrait of Sir Astley Cooper)
Date
1835
Little Red Riding Hood
Date
1834
Study, the Head of an Artist
Date
1833
The Evening Star
Date
1833
(Portrait of Rev. Marshall Claxton)
Date
1832
Collections
Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition
1888- 1889
Exhibition ()
Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Victoria
Sydney Intercolonial Exhibition
1870
Exhibition ()
Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, Sydney, New South Wales
London International Exhibition
1862
Exhibition ()
London, England, UK
British Institution
1860
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
Royal Academy
1857
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
Fine Art Exhibition
1857
Exhibition ()
Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, New South Wales
Australian Museum exhibition
1854
Exhibition ()
Sydney, New South Wales
Victorian Fine Arts Society
1853
Exhibition ()
Melbourne, Victoria
1851
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Sydney College, Sydney, NSW
Houses of Parliament
1847
Exhibition (exhibited at)
Westminster, London, England, UK
Royal Academy
1839
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
British Institution
1834
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1832
Exhibition (exhibited at)
London, England, UK
Recognitions
Cartoon competition for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament, Westminster
1843
Award
Cartoon competition for the decoration of the new Houses of Parliament, Westminster
Note: Gold medal
1835 : Gold medal
1835
Award
Note: Royal Academy School of Painting's first medal
Royal Academy School of Painting
1834
Award
Citations:
  • Cust, Lionel, Dictionary of National Biography
  • Dickens, Charles, (13 March 1852), Household Words
  • Terry, A., (c.1852), Diary, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript)
  • Sumner, I., (1982), 'The Claxtons. The preacher - the painter 1779-1881', (Place: Manuscript)
  • Stephen Family Papers, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript)
  • C. Martens Papers, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, manuscript)
  • Wood, C., (1971), Dictionary of Victorian Painters, (Place: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK)
  • (August 1858), 'Dick Tinto', 'Art and artists in Sydney', (Place: Sydney, NSW : The Month: A Literary and Critical Journal, Volume 3, Number 4)
  • Moore, W., (1934), The Story of Australian Art, (Place: Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, (facsimile reprint 1980), 2 volumes)
  • Martens, C., (1975), 'A lecture upon landscape painting', (Place: Melbourne, VIC : Smith, B. (ed.), Documents on Art and Taste in Australia)
  • Johnson, J., (1975), Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824-1893, (Place: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK)
  • Graves, A., (1905), The Royal Academy of Arts London
  • Fisher, G., (1975), The University of Sydney 1850-1875, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Dixson, W., (1923), 'Notes on Australian artists', (Place: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 9)
  • Buscombe, E., (1978), Artists in Early Australia and their Portraits, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Bell, P., (1988), The University of Sydney Exhibition, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Abbott, G.; and Little, G. (eds), (1876), The Respectable Sydney Merchant: A.B. Spark of Tempe, (Place: Sydney, NSW)
  • Macmillan, D.S., (1969), 'Marshall Claxton', (Place: Melbourne, VIC : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press)
See also:
  • Captain James Cook, c.1850-1854, oil on canvas, 126x100.5cm, Chief Secretary's Office, New South Wales Government.