Herbert Menzies Marshall's strong hand was his right. For Trinity College, University of Cambridge, he performed 15 times in cricket matches for his team, the Gentlemen, to top performances on the noble green of the English lawn.
Herbert M. Marshall's precise finesse as a watercolour painter would soon stand out even more than his power as a cricketer. Born in Leeds in 1841 as the son of a judge, the artist first studied at Westminster School in London. After studying natural sciences in Cambridge, he spent much time in France. He travelled to Amiens, Rouen, Limoges, Tours and Orléans and studied architecture with Charles-Auguste Questel in Paris, before returning to the Royal Academy in London in 1867, where he began training as a watercolourist. The following year he was awarded a Travelling Studentship for Architecture. The ensuing trip to Italy weakened his eyesight - probably due to the constant sketching under a bright sun - but then so severely that he was forced to give up all artistic work for two years. The eye disease caused Marshall to devote more of his attention to watercolor painting, which put less strain on his eyes. Success in what was for him a new technique was not long in coming: in 1871 he exhibited his first drawing at the Dudley Gallery. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colors, and in 1898 and 1900 he was elected its vice president. He was awarded the silver medal at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris.
Herbert Menzies Marshall received special recognition for his atmospheric, Edwardian cityscapes of London, such as A winter's evening on the Embankment with the Houses of Parliament beyond: wet from the rain, the Thames promenade lies in a bluish-grey mist. The two-storey Routemaster buses set colourful accents on the tree-lined roadside in front of the House of Parliament, which disappears in the background, and give the scene its down-to-earth local colour. Herbert Marshall, as the artist himself signed his pictures, painted in all parts of England and Scotland as well as on the continent in the Netherlands, France and Germany and worked as an illustrator. From 1904 he took over a professorship for landscape painting at Queen's College in London, which he held until his death.
Herbert Menzies Marshall's strong hand was his right. For Trinity College, University of Cambridge, he performed 15 times in cricket matches for his team, the Gentlemen, to top performances on the noble green of the English lawn.
Herbert M. Marshall's precise finesse as a watercolour painter would soon stand out even more than his power as a cricketer. Born in Leeds in 1841 as the son of a judge, the artist first studied at Westminster School in London. After studying natural sciences in Cambridge, he spent much time in France. He travelled to Amiens, Rouen, Limoges, Tours and Orléans and studied architecture with Charles-Auguste Questel in Paris, before returning to the Royal Academy in London in 1867, where he began training as a watercolourist. The following year he was awarded a Travelling Studentship for Architecture. The ensuing trip to Italy weakened his eyesight - probably due to the constant sketching under a bright sun - but then so severely that he was forced to give up all artistic work for two years. The eye disease caused Marshall to devote more of his attention to watercolor painting, which put less strain on his eyes. Success in what was for him a new technique was not long in coming: in 1871 he exhibited his first drawing at the Dudley Gallery. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colors, and in 1898 and 1900 he was elected its vice president. He was awarded the silver medal at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris.
Herbert Menzies Marshall received special recognition for his atmospheric, Edwardian cityscapes of London, such as A winter's evening on the Embankment with the Houses of Parliament beyond: wet from the rain, the Thames promenade lies in a bluish-grey mist. The two-storey Routemaster buses set colourful accents on the tree-lined roadside in front of the House of Parliament, which disappears in the background, and give the scene its down-to-earth local colour. Herbert Marshall, as the artist himself signed his pictures, painted in all parts of England and Scotland as well as on the continent in the Netherlands, France and Germany and worked as an illustrator. From 1904 he took over a professorship for landscape painting at Queen's College in London, which he held until his death.
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