Marshall Claxton

Marshall Claxton (12 May 1811 – 28 July 1881) was an English subject, genre, landscape and portrait painter.

Claxton was born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, the Rev.

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".

He married and had two daughters, Adelaide and Florence Claxton, both of whom were artists and represented in Royal Academy exhibitions between 1859 and 1867.

His portraits of Bishop William Broughton and Dean Cowper are at St. Paul's College, University of Sydney, and that of the Rev.