Herbert Menzies Marshall

Herbert Menzies Marshall (1 August 1841 – 2 March 1913)[1] was an English watercolour painter and illustrator,[2] and earlier in life a cricket player.

Marshall was born in Leeds, the son of a County Court judge, and educated at Westminster School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] where he earned a "blue" at cricket.

[3] He studied architecture under Charles-Auguste Questel in Paris and at the Royal Academy, London where he was awarded a "travelling studentship".

According to his Wisden obituary, he "was generally considered the best long stop of his day", his fielding to the "tremendously fast bowling" of his Cambridge team-mate Robert Lang being exceptional.

Marshall became known for his cityscapes of London but also painted in other parts of England and Scotland, and on the continent in the Netherlands, France and Germany.