This portrait was the source for a well-known engraving of John Marshall produced by David Edwin in 1815. Jeremiah Paul was a Philadelphia painter and portraitist and it seems likely that John Marshall posed for this portrait on one of his trips to that city. Paul was a skilled painter and received his early training from the well-known artist Charles Wilson Peale. This image of Marshall is much softer than the more well-known Hubard likeness (a copy of which is displayed in the Large Dining Room at the Marshall House) and depicts Marshall around the age of sixty. The painting is probably still in its original carved and gilded oval wooden frame.