Editing Marbleizing (section)

===Thomas Kershaw===
Kershaw was born in [[Standish, Lancashire]], England, in April 1819.
 
He achieved international fame, winning a number of prestigious awards at the major exhibitions of the age; [[The Great Exhibition]], London, 1851 - a first prize medal; [[Exposition Universelle (1855)|Exposition Universelle]], [[Paris]], 1855 - a first class medal; London Exhibition, 1862 - first prize.

Kershaw's work was often considered to be indiscernible from the original. He undertook work in many large houses, mansions and stately homes throughout [[England]] and [[Wales]] and once declined an offer from the Russian Ambassador to imitate marbles on the interior of the Imperial Palace in [[St Petersburg]]. In 1858 he produced one of his important works in the Blue Room in [[Buckingham Palace]] where all the pillars were done in imitation marble.