Thomas William Marshall (painter)

Thomas William Marshall was an English Post-Impressionist painter and water colorist, born on at Donisthorpe in England. He died on in Paris.

He painted landscapes, portraits, nudes and produced watercolours, in Paris, in Île-de-France, in Normandy, on the French Riviera and in Corsica. Between 1904 and 1914, He exhibited his work in Paris at the Salon d'Automne, as well as the Salon des Indépendants and also at the Nationale des Beaux-Arts. These art salons were at the peak of their glory, in this era, with well known painters such as Marquet, Modigliani, Sickert, Kandinsky, participating in them.

Biography

Thomas William Marshall was born in 1875 in Donisthorpe, Derbyshire in England. He was the son of Robert Aldred Marshall (1852–1884) a wealthy mining engineer from Nottinghamshire who died in the Bullhouse Bridge rail accident, and Dorothy Ann Tarr (1852–1879). He is a first cousin of the rugby player Frank Tarr. Thomas William studied in both Oxford and in Cambridge.

Wishing to become a painter despite his fragile health, he left England to live in Paris in 1897 and enrolled in the Académie Julian. There he met the Canadian painter Albert Henry Robinson, who would become his student and friend. In Paris he was reunited with his English friends, also painters, such as Ernest Yarrow Jones (1872–1951). As of 1900, he began to participate successfully in some Parisian exhibitions. His studio was located at 3 rue Campagne-Première, he then moved to 51 rue de Sèvres, and then relocated to 49 boulevard du Montparnasse.

In 1904, he participated for the first time in the Salon d'Automne where he would show an average of five to six paintings or watercolours per salon, every year until 1913. He was named as a member of the Salon in 1908. During this time, he showed works at the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 and then from 1908 to 1914. He also showed his works at the Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1911 and at the London Salon (of the Allied Artists Association) in London from 1908 to 1914. Thomas William Marshall was one of the founding members of the London Salon with Walter Sickert.

Thomas William Marshall was a member of the Golf Club of Paris (Société de golf de Paris) and played at the when he started. Therefore, he produced many drawings and caricatures inspired by this sport.

Due to his fragile health, he left for the Côte d'Azur and settled in Corse in 1908, where he produced a large part of his body of work (oil on canvas or on cardboard, watercolours and caricatures). He transferred works he had created in Corsica onto canvas:landscapes and scenes inspired by daily life on the island back to Paris for exhibition. These works gained him much praise from the art critics of that era.

In 1910, Thomas William Marshall married Marie-Louise DésagullierRegistre de la Mairie du Luxembourg, VIe arr. de Paris, numéro 212/687, année 1910. who had been his companion and model for many years. He died prematurely from tuberculosis on in Paris, at the age of 38, at the height of his talent. He was cremated at cimetière du Père-Lachaise and his ashes are resting at the columbarium (87th division, niche n° 2137).

Wealthier than many of the contemporary artists of his time, he did not really need to sell much of his art to live; as a result, he remained relatively unknown until his rediscovery by art critic in 1984. One of Thomas William Marshall's paintings, a landscape of Corsica painted in 1910, was selected by a specialized jury and art lovers, displayed at the Espace Pierre Cardin at the Champs-Élysées and was reproduced in colour in an edition of the magazine Paris-Match in December 1984.

Many exhibitions to honour his work followed: at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1986, at the Salon d'Automne in 1987 where an entire room was dedicated in tribute to him, and two personal exhibitions in Bastia in 1988 and in Villefranche-sur-mer in 1993. The Beauvais museum acquired a painting in 1987. Bastia and Villefranche-sur-Mer museums each have conserved one or more of his works in their public collections.

Works Recognized by Jacques Foucart, general curator at the Paintings Department of the Musée du Louvre, the pictorial work of the English painter Thomas William Marshall, is both inspired by the last sparkling embers of the 19th century and by the end of Impressionism. Composed of numerous oil paintings and watercolours, of rare quality, his work can be added to the Post-Impressionist and symboliste movements. Also certain pieces could be considered neo-Japonard or nabis. Regardless of how one classifies it, his work remains deeply original.

Exhibitions

Salon d'Automne (1904–1913 and 1987)

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1904 866. Poigny (landscape). 867. Printemps (Spring). 868. Le Pommier - The Apple Tree. 869. Le Petit Cottage - The Little Cottage. 1571. Paysage - Landscape (watercolour). 1572. Le Petit Paris, Dieppe - Dieppe, the Little Paris (watercolour). 1573. Une vieille ruelle - An Old Alley (landscape, watercolour).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1905 1050. Sunshine and shadow (pastel). 1051. Bords du Canal St-Vinnemer - The banks of St. Vinnemer Canal (pastel). 1052. Villefranche (pastel). 1053. Verger - Orchard (pastel). 1054. La « Miekmaid » - The "Miekmaid" (watercolour). 1055. Les Oies - The Geese (watercolour, pastel). 1056. Chaumière - Thatched Cottage (watercolour).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1906 1148. Bords de la Seine (temps gris) - Banks of The Seine (Grey Weather). 1149. Canal (temps gris) - Canal (Grey Weather). 1150. Crue de la Seine - Flooding of The Seine. 1151. Peupliers - Poplars. 1152. Reflet (Villefranche) - Reflection (Villefranche). 1153. Le Tub - The Tub.

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1907 1223. Les Citronniers, à Villefranche-sur-Mer - The Lemon Trees at Villefranche-sur-Mer. 1224. Coin de Terrasse (Jardin du Luxembourg) - Terrace Corner (Luxemburg Garden).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1908 1358. Pietranera. 1359. Amandiers printemps (Corse) - Almond Tree, Spring (Corsica). 1360. Citroniers à Villefranche - Lemon Trees at Villefranche.

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1909 1163. Vallée de Centiori (Cap Corse) - Centiori Valley (The Corsica Cape). 1164. Couvent de S. Martino-di-Lota (Corse) - S. Martino-di-Lota Convent. 1165. Pietranera (Corse) - Pietranera (Corsica). 1166. Temps gris à la montagne (Corse) - Grey Weather on the Mountain (Corsica). 1167. Chavenay (S.-et-O.). 1168. Intérieur (après déjeuner) - Inside (after lunch).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1910 821. Orangers, Ajaccio - Orange Trees, Ajaccio. 822. La Baie d'Ajaccio - The Bay of Ajaccio. 823. Gitanes au marché d'Ajaccio - Gypsies at the Ajaccio Market (watercolour). 824. Retour du marché - Back From the Market (watercolour).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1911 1065. Faverges (Haute-Savoie). 1066. Avant la moisson (Haute-Savoie) - Before the Harvest (Haute-Savoie). 1067. La Seine: au Pont Royal - The Seine: at the Royal Bridge. 1068. La Seine: Quai d'Orsay - The Seine: at the Orsay Quay. 1069. La Seine: du Pont des Arts - The Seine: at the Pont des Arts. 1070. La Seine: Pont des Invalides - The Seine: at the Invalids' Bridge.

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1912 1142. Amandiers en fleurs, Minelli (Corse) - Flowering Almond Trees, Minelli (Corsica). 1143. Le Couvent de San Martino di Lota (Corse) - The San Martino di Lota Convent (Corsica). 1144. Les Amandiers fleuris (Corse) - The Flowering Almond Trees (Corsica). 1145. San Martino di Lota.

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1913 1450. Bastia (Corse) - Bastia (Corsica). 1451. La Pique (montagne) (Corse) - The Peak (Mountain, Corsica). 1452. Le Couvent de St Antoine à travers les fourrés (Corse) - St Anthony Convent through the bushes (Corsica). 1453. Cyprès, couvent de Bastia (Corse) - Cypress, Bastia Convent (Corsica). 1454. La Pique sous la neige (Corse) - The Peak Under The Snow (Corsica).

Work exhibited at Salon d'Automne 1987

Tribute organized by Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy, President of the Salon d'Automne, at the time. 18 paintings were exhibited in a room, dedicated entirely to the former secretary T.W. Marshall, from October 23 to November 8, 1987. 1. Coin de terrasse au Luxembourg - Terrace Corner at Luxemburg Garden. 2. Les Quais de la Seine à Paris - The Quays of the Seine in Paris. 3. Le Port de Villefranche-sur-Mer - The Villefranche-sur-Mer Harbour. 4. L'Atelier à Montparnasse - The Studio at Montparnasse. 5. Portrait de Mlle D - Portrait of Miss D. 6. La Barque - The Boat. 7. Le Tub - The Tub. 8. Le Village de San Martino Di Lota (Corse) - The Village of San Martino Di Lota (Corsica). 9. Le ‘‘Libeccio’’ - The "Libeccio". 10. Amandier en fleurs - Flowering Almond Tree. 11. Portrait de Mrs Jones - Portrait of Mrs. Jones. 12. Verger en Normandie - Orchard in Normandy. 13. Les Oies - The Geese. 14. Figuiers de Barbarie - Barbary Fig Trees. 15. Village de Morsiglia (Corse) - Village of Morsiglia (Corsica). 16. Sous la tonnelle - Under the Arbor. 17. Bord de mer en Corse - Shores of Corsica. 18. Le Petit Cottage - The Little Cottage.

Salon des Indépendants (1906, 1908–1914, 1986)

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1906 3351. Le Pont des Arts. 3352. Portrait de Mlle D - Portrait of Miss D. 3353. Le Pont Royal. 3354. Merisier en fleurs - Flowering Cherrywood. 3355. Le Verger - The Orchard. 3356. Soleil d'été - Summer Sun. 3357. Effet de neige (Luxembourg) - Snow Effect (Luxemburg) 3358. Temps gris - Grey Weather.

Work exhibited at Salon des indépendants 1909 1686 to 1687 (2 paintings). Étude au cap Corse - Study at Corsica Cape.

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1910 3518 to 3523 (6 paintings). Étude d'amandiers fleuris, Ajaccio (Corse) - Study of Flowering Almond Trees, Ajaccio (Corsica).

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1911 4107. Citronniers d'Ajaccio - Lemon Trees of Ajaccio. 4108. La Baie d'Ajaccio - The Bay of Ajaccio. 4109. Pont Royal (aquarelle) - Royal Bridge (watercolour). 4110. Jardin du Luxembourg (aquarelle) - Luxemburg Garden (watercolour). 4111. La Seine à l'Alma - The Seine at Alma. 4112. Villefranche-sur-Mer.

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1912 2176. Le Parmelan (Hte Savoie) - The Parmelan (Haute Savoie). 2177. Amandiers rose - Pink Almond Trees. 2178. Amandier fleuri- Flowering Almond Trees.

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1913 2017. Cyprès (couvent de Bastia), Corse - Cypress (Bastia Convent), Corsica. 2018. Bastia à travers les arbres (Corse) - Bastia Through The Trees (Corsica). 2019. La Route de Saint-Florent (Corse) - The Road to Saint-Florent (Corsica).

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1914 2197 to 2199 (3 paintings). Paysage corse - Corsican Landscapes.

Work exhibited at Salon des Indépendants 1986

Tribute to T. W. Marshall with six paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris.

London Salon (1908–1914) Work exhibited for the London Salon Allied Artist Association in London, at the Royal Albert Hall from 1908 to 1913 and at the Holland Park Hall in 1914.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1908 178. Grey day on the Seine. 179. Lemon trees - Villefranche. 180. Orange trees - Corsica. 181. Almond - Corsica. 182. Pietranera - Corsica.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1909 590. Morsiglia - Cape Corse. 591. The Valley of San Martino di Lota (Corsica). 592. Pietranera - Corsica.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1910 (section XVII) 490. Almond Blossom - Corsica. 491. Almonds and the Bay of Ajaccio. 492. Corner of the Lemon Grove - Ajaccio.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1911 470. Orange Trees - Ajaccio. 471. Villefranche sur mer. 472. The Last of the Apple Blossom - Poigny.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1912 218. Colette. 219. Valley of Chambery. 220. The Seine and the Louvre.

Work exhibited at the London Salon, 1913 428. Corsican Landscape.