Arthur Hardwick Marsh

Arthur Hardwick Marsh (27 January 1842 – 10 December 1909) was a British painter and watercolourist who flourished during the late Victorian era.

He originally trained as an architect but later travelled to London where he studied art at the British Museum and the National Gallery.

[2] Other paintings include The Wayfarers (1879), The Turnip Cutter (1902), The Ploughman Homeward Plods his Weary Way, The Worker,[3] The wreck of the Hesperus (1868), Lady Macbeth (1878) and In the Cottage Garden (1886).

Arthur Hardwick Marsh died on 10 December 1909 in Newcastle upon Tyne aged 67 and was buried in St Andrew's Cemetery there.

His daughter Charlotte was imprisoned and force fed 139 times for suffragette activity during his final illness and her release to see him was delayed even though the prison authorities knew of his terminal condition.