Marshall A Bit of Devonshire 1887 {1904} NGV [WT]

Marshall, R.A.K. [Roberto Angelo Kwittermaster] (1849-1902; English)
A Bit of Devonshire 1887
Watercolour, gum arabic and scratching out, 68.8 x 53.3 cm (sheet)
Bequest of Alfred Felton, 1904
National Gallery of Victoria (153-2) 

This watercolour is another example of Felton’s taste for conventionally picturesque English landscapes: see comments under Cook Near Arundel 1882 {1904} NGV [WT].

It also appears to be typical of the output of Marshall.

Refs.

NGV 1905, p.46 (II.Stawell Gallery, no.35) 

For this work, see also the 2011-12 NGV exhibition British Watercolours 1760-1900: The Age of Splendour (catalogue available online).

For the artist (not listed in AKL), see Bénézit 9, pp.338-39 (oddly, indicating his date of death as 1923); Mallalieu (1976), p.174; and http://www.invaluable.com/artist/marshall-roberto-angelo-kittermaster-jfxjqywaf7/sold-at-auction-prices/, reproducing other examples