Marcus Charles Beilby (born 20 November 1951, in Western Australia),[1] is an Australian realist painter.
He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, where he received a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1975.
[6] Beilby was the winner of the 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting.
[7] In 1988, Charles Bush received a royal commission from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to depict the inauguration of the permanent Parliament House.
As a result, Marcus Beilby was chosen to finalize the artwork and carry out the completion of the painting.