Arthur Hardwick Marsh
Arthur Hardwick Marsh was a British painter and watercolourist who flourished during the late Victorian era.
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. He originally trained as an architect but later travelled to London where he studied Art at the British Museum and the National Gallery. He exhibited in London from 1865 and was an Associate of the Society of Painters in Watercolours and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He spent a period working in Wales before settling in Newcastle upon Tyne. His 1887 painting Lighting the Beacon shows the role of working class women in guiding ships to shore. Other paintings include The Wayfarers, The Turnip Cutter, The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way, The Worker, The wreck of the Hesperus, Lady Macbeth and In the Cottage Garden.
In 1860 he married Juliana Phillis Glover and with her had two daughters: Margaret Hannah Phillis Marsh and Phillis Clara Sylvia Marsh. He married Ellen Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1884 and with her had a further five daughters: Nellie Wellesley Marsh ; the militant British suffragette Charlotte Marsh, Dorothy Hale Marsh ; Margaret Marsh and Lois Marsh.
A stained-glass window attributed to him is in Holy Trinity Church in Aldershot in Hampshire.
Arthur Hardwick Marsh died in 1909 in Newcastle upon Tyne aged 67 and was buried in St Andrew's Cemetery there. In his will he left £601 15s 6d to his widow.
