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when likenesses of men occupied Marshall's brush, 

 portraits of race-horses, hunters and sporting dogs 

 were the works to which he devoted his talents for 

 the most part ; and though hunting and shooting 

 subjects also came from his studio, he is best known 

 by the equine portraits, which display sound know- 

 ledge of anatomy and close study of the horse 

 under all conditions. 



After thirteen years' residence at Newmarket 

 Marshall returned in 1825 to London, where he 

 purchased a house in London Terrace, Hackney 

 Road. His choice of locality was influenced by the 

 fact that his eldest son had received an appoint- 

 ment in the Customs, and also by the desire that 

 the younger, Lambert, should be able to profit by 

 attendance at the Schools of Art in the Metropolis. 

 Here the artist passed the last ten years of his 

 life, dying on 24th July, 1835, in his sixty-seventh 

 year. He was buried at Bethnal Green. A writer 

 in the Sporting Magazine pays tribute to his 

 memory with the mourning lines so much in vogue 

 in past days : — 



" The remains of this eminent artist were followed to the 

 grave by his sorrowing relations and a few attached friends, 

 and his body was deposited in a vault at Bethnal Green by 

 the side of his wife and daughter. 



" The hero falls and roars the funeral fire. 

 The prelate dies and peals the cloister'd choir, 

 To each appropriate ; yet the lowly name 

 Shall not in vain prefer its humble claim. 



