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By The Bus Window an oil on canvas circa 1835 by Marshall Claxton 1811 – 1881.
Marshall Claxton was an important 19th century English artist born in Bolton Lancashire. In 1831 he had enrolled to study at the Royal Academy Schools. He was a prodigious talent and his first painting was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1832 when he was 21. In 1834 he was awarded the prize medal in the painting school, and obtained the gold medal of the Society of Arts 1835. From 1837 to 1842 he worked in Italy and then returned to London, gaining a prize of £100 for his “Alfred the Great in the Camp of the Danes”. In 1850 he travelled to Australia moving on to Calcutta in 1854. He returned to England via Egypt in 1858.
Examples of his work are held in: The Royal Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Derby Art Gallery, York Art Gallery, Salford Art Gallery as well as Art Gallery of New South Wales.
An original letter from the artist (attached to the back) states “…from a sketch taken in the Bus. He looked like a Canny Scotchman”
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