William Calder Marshall RA
Born 18 March 1813
Died 16 June 1894
Active: 1834 - 1891
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Sculptor
Born in Edinburgh, the eldest son of William Marshall, a goldsmith and owner of a firm of jewellers, and his wife, Annie Calder. He studied at Edinburgh University and attended the Trustees Academy from 1830.
In 1834 Marhsall moved to London and worked in the studios of Francis Chantrey and Edward Hodges Baily, also entering the Royal Academy Schools where he won a silver medal. Two years later Marshall went to Rome via Paris and studied there until 1838.
On his return, Marshall spent a year in Edinburgh before settling permanently in London (1839). He received many commissions for public statues, architectural works and church monuments.
He died at his home, 115 Ebury Street, Chester Square, London, on 16 June 1894, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery. Marshall was an astute businessman which was reflected in the value of his estate.
Wealth at death: £48,709 7s. 4d.
Probate date: 3 August 1894
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
Sketch Design for a Statue of Griselda
Sabrina Thrown into the Severn
Sabrina
1851
The Dancing Girl Reposing
1851
Sabrina
1851
Sabrina
1853
The mother's prayer
1855 (Presumed)
Ariel
1855 (Presumed)
Ajax praying for light
1855 (Presumed)
A Mother's Kiss
1880 (Presumed)
Stepping Stones
1880 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 10 Archibald Place Edinburgh | View on map
1836 (Circa) - 1852 (Circa)
Did not live at this address circa 1839
Address 23 Alfred Street Torrington Square London | View on map
1836 (Circa) - 1837 (Circa)
Address Rome | View on map
1838 (Circa)
Address 6 Upper Belgrave Place London | View on map
1839 (Circa) - 1852 (Circa)
Address 47 Ebury Street Eaton Square London | View on map
1851 (Circa) - 1891 (Circa)
Address Lower Belgrave Place London | View on map
1853 (Circa)
Address 115 Ebury Street Eaton Square London | View on map
1871 (Circa) - 1894
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Award received from National Scholarships, 1863
1869 - 1871
Listed as a National Scholar at the National Art Training School, London. Modeller and Designer from Sheffield (see 'List of National Scholars', 1884, p. 188).
Exhibited at The International Exhibition, London, 1862
'Griselda'
Exhibited at Yorkshire Fine Art Society, The First Spring Exhibition, 1880
'Stepping Stones'
Exhibited at Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Autumn Exhibition, 1880
Multiple works
Exhibited at National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, 1868
'Young Satyr'
Exhibited at Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Arts (Leeds), 1853
'Sabrina'
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Institution, Second Autumn Exhibition, 1884
'Sabrina Thrown into the Severn'
Exhibited at Royal Manchester Institution, Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, 1875
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
p.51
Exhibited at The Exhibition of Art-Industry in Dublin, 1853
Exhibited at International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1865
p. 103 (no. 51) 'Ophelia' - marble statue.
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1835 - 1891
Exhibited 39 times post-1851 and a further 15 times prior to that date, he frequently showed 4 or 5 works in one year.
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1836 - 1926
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 35 times: 1836 (1 work), 1837 (4 works), 1838 (5 works), 1839 (2 works), 1840 (3 works), 1841 (4 works), 1842 (3 works), 1843 (3 works), 1844 (3 works), 1845 (3 works), 1847 (2 works), 1849 (1 work), 1852 (1 work), 1853 (2 works), 1855 (5 works), 1856 (6 works), 1857 (3 works), 1859 (2 works), 1864 (2 works), 1865 (1 work), 1866 (1 work), 1871 (2 works), 1873 (1 work), 1874 (1 work), 1875 (2 works), 1880 (2 works), 1883 (1 work), 1884 (1 work), 1885 (1 work), 1886 (2 works), 1887 (1 work), 1889 (1 work), 1891 (1 work), 1916 (1 work) and 1926 (1 work)
Exhibited at Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations (London), 1851
1851
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1862 - 1880
Exhibited 2 times (an average of two works per show)
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the tenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1880
1880
Undine (cat. no. 1079, £420).
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Ninety-Fourth, 1862
1862
Appointed to the 'committee of arrangement' for sculpture in 1862.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Ninety-Fifth, 1863
1863 (Presumed)
Appointed to the 'committee of arrangement' for sculpture in 1863. See Royal Academy 'Annual Report', 1964.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eleventh, 1879
1879 - 16 April 1879
Served on the 'committee of arrangement' for sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1879', 1880, p. 31.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Twelfth, 1880
9 April 1880 - 15 April 1880
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy 'Annual Report, 1880', 1881, p. 26.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixteenth, 1884
15 April 1884 - 22 April 1884
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture for the exhibition. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1884', 1885, p. 36.
Exhibition committee member for The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eighteenth, 1886
1886 - May 1886
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture for the exhibition. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1886', 1887, pp. 25-26.
Institutional and Business Connections
Committee member of Royal Academy Schools
1873 - 1874
Served on the Schools Committee. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
4 November 1844 - 10 February 1852
Elected RA in 1852.
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1840
Elected honorary member of The Royal Scottish Academy
1861
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
10 February 1852 - 16 June 1894
Member of Institute of British Sculptors
1852 - 1861 (Circa)
Founder member
Member of council Institute of British Sculptors
1861 (Circa)
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1871 - 1887
Served as a Member of the Council from 1871 to 1872, and from 1878 to 1879. He served again from 1885 to 1887. See the Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
21 April 1834 - 1844 (Presumed)
Elected A.R.A. in 1844. See Popp and Valentine, 'Royal Academy of Arts Directory of Membership', (1996), p. 81.
Visitor at Royal Academy Schools
1863 - 1884
Marshall is listed as a sculptor visitor to the Life School from 1863. See the Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'. From 1882 onwards, Marshall is listed as a visitor to the School of Modelling from the Life. See Royal Academy 'Annual Report, 1881', (1882), p. 35.
Marshall also served on the committee to represent sculpture for the International Exhibition in 1871. See the Royal Academy 'Annual Report', (1871), p. 10.
Worked with Art Union of London
1848 (Circa) - 1857 (Circa)
To reproduce 'Dancing Girl Reposing' in parian ware (issued first in 1848, further editions annually between 1850-57)
Personal and Professional Connections
Assistant to Edward Hodges Baily
Assistant to Francis Legatt Chantrey
Employed as studio assistant Neville Northey Burnard
Nominator of Samuel Ferres Lynn
22 June 1869
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of John Birnie Philip
4 July 1870
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of George Blackall Simonds
27 April 1875
For RA; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Wallis Rowland Ingram
16 April 1887
Nominator of Charles James Bart
16 November 1888
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of James Sherwood Westmacott
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Charles Bell Birch
6 July 1872
Descriptions of Practice
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1365
Listed under Sculptors Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
p. 1803
Sources
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851
2009
pp. 814-21
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians 1862, 1863 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1863
pp. 19, 20
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians 1863, 1864 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1864
pp. 19, 20
Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of the Academy of Arts, 8 Bond Street, Leeds, 1853
1853 (Presumed)
pp. 23, 29 (Cat. Nos. 522, 523)
Catalogue of the Autumn Exhibition (Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Leeds) 1880
1880
pp. 56, 58, xii (Cat. Nos. 531, 552)
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1875
1875
pp. 76, 87 (Cat. Nos. 816, 818)
Catalogue of the First Spring Exhibition 1880
1880
pp. 64, 67, xvi (Cat. Nos. 737, 776A)
Catalogue of the National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds 1868
1868
Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
1851
p. 711 (2)
Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art Industry in Dublin, 1853.
1853
p. viii (sculpture exhibits)
International exhibition 1862, official catalogue, fine art department
1862
List of Members: Institute of British Sculptors (or Sculptor's Institute)
2008 (Circa)
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1880 Walker Art Gallery
1880
pp. 67-69.
Official Catalogue of Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865
1865
p. 103 (no. 51)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Martin Greenwood, ‘Marshall, William Calder (1813–1894)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18159, accessed 4 Sept 2009]
Post Office London Directory, 1851 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1851
p. 1365
Post Office London Directory, 1860 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1860
p. 1803
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1866, 1870, 1872, 1875, 1888.
Rules of the Institute of Sculptors
1861
p. iv
The Builder, Vol. XI, No. 531, 9 April 1853
9 April 1853
p. 228
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
p. 64
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.51
The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.238 and p.239
Citing this record
'William Calder Marshall RA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1202171433, accessed 02 Oct 2023]
