Marshall Claxton ( born Marshall Claxton , 1811–1881) is a British artist who worked in various genres [1] .
| Marshall Claxton | |
|---|---|
| English Marshall claxton | |
| Date of Birth | May 12, 1811 |
| Place of Birth | Bolton |
| Date of death | July 26, 1881 (aged 70) |
| A place of death | London |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Genre | portrait painter, landscapes, still lifes, genre scenes |
Claxton was born in Bolton , in Lancashire . He was the son of a Methodist, Rev. Marshall Claxton, and his wife Diana. Claxton studied with John Jackson, and later at the Royal Academy School, which he graduated on April 26, 1831.
His first painting at the Royal Academy in 1832 was a portrait of his father. In subsequent years, 30 of his works were exhibited at the Academy. In 1834 he received the first medal of the art school, and in 1835 he received the gold medal of the Art Society for the portrait of Sir Astley Cooper . From 1837 to 1842 he worked in Italy, and upon returning to London received a prize of £ 100 for the painting "Alfred the Great in the Camp of the Danes".
In 1850, Claxton traveled to Sydney with a large collection of paintings, but did not succeed in selling them. In Sydney, he paints a large painting, “Suffer little children to come unto me,” commissioned by Baroness Burdett-Coutts. In Household Words, the painting was described as the first important painting written in Australia [2] .
In September 1854, Claxton leaves Sydney for Calcutta , where he sells several of his paintings. In 1858, he returned to England through Egypt, and after a long illness he died in London on July 28, 1881.
He was married and had two daughters, Adelaide and Florence. Both became artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1867.
Claxton's painting “General View of the Harbor and City of Sydney” is in the Royal Collection of England, two of his paintings are in the Dickinson collection at the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. His portraits of Bishop William Broughton and Dean Cowper are in St. Paul's College of the University of Sydney, and his portrait of Robert Forrest is in the Royal School of Parramatta. His Godiva is at the Herbert Art Gallery, and he has works at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Marshall Claxton , BBC, accessed August 2011
- ↑ Macmillan, David S., 'Claxton, Marshall (1813-1881)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Center of Biography, Australian National University, accessed August 22, 2011 .
- Macmillan, David S .: Claxton, Marshall (1813-1881) , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 3, MUP , 1969, pp 424-425.
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- Claxton online (ArtCyclopedia)