Sculptor and mason. The eldest son of the sculptor, Edward Marshall, by whom he was probably trained. Like his father, he held office in the Masons’ Company of London. In 1667 he succeeded John Stone as Master Mason at Windsor Castle, and was appointed, after his father’s retirement from that office, Master Mason to the Crown. From 1660 he lived in the vicinity of Fetter Lane in the City of London. From the time of his appointment at Windsor Castle, Marshall was more active as a mason than as a sculptor. He produced many church monuments, often of a routine type, with busts in niches. However, his monument to Edward Viscount Campden and his wife (1664) at Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, is more ambitious, showing the deceased couple full-length, in their shrouds, standing within the open doors of the tomb. Between 1664 and 1667, Marshall made a number of chimney pieces for Whitehall, and in 1676 he was paid for carving the reliefs on the pedestal of Hubert Le Sueur’s statue of Charles I at Charing Cross.
Bibliography: I. Roscoe et al, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660–1851, New Haven and London, 2009, pp. 811–13; P. Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of the City of London, Liverpool, 2003, pp. 260, 264; P. Ward-Jackson, Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster. Volume 1, Liverpool, 2011, pp. 237, 288, 289, 290; A. White, Biographical Dictionary of London Tomb Sculptors (Walpole Society, vol. 61, 1999, (pp. 1–162), pp. 95–106.
Philip Ward-Jackson, 2011