It was at this period, in 1831 and 1832, that Inman’s fine portrait of him, now hanging in the rooms of the Law Association of Philadelphia, was painted, for the bar of that city. A replica which Marshall himself bought for his daughter, is on the walls of the state library in Richmond. This portrait is regarded as the best of those painted in his later life. Certainly it best answers the description of him by an English traveler, who, seeing him often in the spring of 1835, remarked that “the venerable dignity of his appearance would not suffer in comparison with that of the most respected and distinguished-looking peer in the British House of Lords.”[56] After his recovery, in 1831, Marshall seems to have been in good health down to the early part of 1835. Then, we are told, he suffered “severe contusions” in the stage-coach in returning from Washington.[57] His health now rapidly declined. He went again for relief to Philadelphia, and died there on July 6, 1835, of a serious disorder of the liver. He had missed from his bedside his oldest son, Thomas, for whom he had been asking. Upon the gravestone of that son, behind the old house at Oakhill, you may read the pathetic tragedy, withheld from his father, that accounts for this absence. While hastening to Philadelphia, at the end of June, he was passing through the streets of Baltimore, in the midst of a tempest, and was killed by the falling of a chimney in the storm. The great Chief Justice was carried home with every demonstration of respect and reverence. He was buried by the side of his wife, in the Shockoe Hill Cemetery in Richmond. There, upon horizontal tablets, are two inscriptions of affecting simplicity, both written by himself. The first runs thus: “John Marshall, Son of Thomas and Mary Marshall, was born the 24th of September, 1755. Intermarried with Mary Willis Ambler, the 3d of January, 1783. Departed this life the [6th] day of July, 1835.” The second, thus: “Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Willis Marshall, Consort of John Marshall, Born the 13th of March, 1766. Departed this life the 25th of December, 1831. This stone is devoted to her memory by him who best knew her worth, And most deplores her loss.” * * * * *