Jon Marshall was born and raised in Quincy, Massachusetts and received his BFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.  Interested in 16th and 17th century Dutch paintings, he traveled to the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Den Hague, and Haarlem to study European art and culture.

Marshall paints most of his allegorical work from his imagination and reference photographs, but he can also be found painting plein air landscapes in western Maine.  He works mostly in oil paints.  His portraits are lifelike and reminiscent of the Old Masters.  Marshall’s use of color and style clearly reflects the influence of Dutch painters; however, mixed with his own imagination and talent, he creates works that are uniquely his own.

A member of The Copley Art Society and a Copley Master, Marshall was the 1999 winner of Yankee Magazine’s Robb Sagendorph Award for his Landscape Allegory, a series of seven landscapes influenced by specific Maine locations.  He was also the recipient of the 1996 Copley Society Nathaniel Burwash Award.  In 1997 and 2000, Marshall was chosen by the Downtown Association in Manhattan, a well-known Wall Street traders club, to paint the portrait of the club’s outgoing president.

Marshall is currently the artist-in-residence in a small town in western Maine.  He lives with his wife and daughter in an old farmhouse they have restored.