Benjamin Marshall (1768 – 1835)

• Was an English sporting and animal painter.
• He was a follower of George Stubbs and studied under Lemuel Abbott for three years.
• At the age of 26 he began to concentrate on horses.
• He exhibited thirteen pictures, chiefly portraits of racehorses and their owners, at the Royal Academy, 1801–12 and 1818–19.
• Sixty paintings of sportsmen, horses, and dogs by Marshall were engraved by John Scott for Wheble's Sporting Magazine.
• He became a regular contributor of letters about horse racing in The Sporting Magazine from 1821 until 1833, writing under the pseudonym 'The Observator'.
• He died on 29 January 1835.
• His son Lambert Marshall was also a sporting painter.
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