William J. Marsh

  • Artist (Painter)
Colonial artist who may have painted a transparency for a shop front of a pharmacy to celebrate the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to Melbourne in 1870.
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painter, executed a 12 × 8 foot (3.65 × 2.43 m) transparency for the façade of Gould & Martin’s chemist’s shop in Collins Street, Melbourne, on the occasion of the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to the city in November 1867. The painting represented the Prince 'with his feet resting on a globe, two sailors on one side and two Australian natives on the other, with the arms of the city of Edinburgh at one end and the Victorian arms at the other; one native leans on a spear, and the other holds a boomerang. The transparency bears the legend “King of Australia”. Surrounding all is some very neat drapery’. The artist was possibly William J. Marsh of Marsh & Co., (house) painters and paperhangers of 200 Little Collins Street, East Melbourne.

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Date written:
1992
Last updated:
2011

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