Arthur Hardwick Marsh

Arthur Hardwick Marsh (27 January 1842 – 10 December 1909) was a British painter and watercolourist who flourished during the late Victorian era.

Window attributed to A. H. Marsh in Holy Trinity Church in Aldershot, Hampshire

Early life

Born in 1842 in Fairfield in Lancashire 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 British Museum and the National Gallery.

Marsh exhibited in London from 1865 and was an Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours (ASRW) and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA). He spent a period working in Wales before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne.[1]

His 1887 painting Lighting the Beacon shows the role of working-class women in guiding ships to shore.[2] Other paintings include The Wayfarers (1879), The Turnip Cutter (1902), The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way, The Worker,[3] The wreck of the Hesperus (1868), Lady Macbeth (1878) and In the Cottage Garden (1886).[4]

A stained-glass window attributed to him is in Holy Trinity Church in Aldershot in Hampshire.

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[5] and with her had a further five daughters: Nellie Wellesley Marsh (1885–1964); the militant British suffragette Charlotte Marsh (1887–1961),[6] Dorothy Hale Marsh (1890–); Margaret Marsh (1892–) and Lois Marsh (1895–1963).

Arthur Hardwick Marsh died on 10 December 1909 in Newcastle upon Tyne 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.[6] In his will he left £601, 15s, 6d to his widow.[7]

References
  1. "MARSH, Arthur Hardwick (1842–1909), Painter, watercolourist : Benezit Dictionary of Artists – oi". Oxford Index – Oxford University Press online. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  2. Mood, Jonathan William (2006). "Employment, politics and working-class women in north east England, c.1790 – 1914" (PDF). University of Durham. p. 145. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  3. Mumba, Rachel (12 January 2008). "Class, Nation and Localism in the Northumberland Art World, 1820–1939" (PDF). University of Durham. pp. 129–130. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  4. "Arthur Hardwick Marsh". artnet. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
  5. Marriage of Arthur Hardwick Marsh – England & Wales Marriage Index: 1837–1915 (1884)
  6. Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928, University College London Press (1999) – Google Books, p. 381
  7. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 – Arthur Hardwick Marsh (1910)
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