Byam Shaw

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Byam Shaw
Royal Academy Schools
Known forPainting, illustration
AwardsArmitage Prize

John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872 – 26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher. He is not to be confused with his sons,

Colnaghi's
, who both used "Byam Shaw" as a surname.

Family

John Byam Liston Shaw was the son of John Shaw and his wife, Sophia Alicia Byam Gunthorpe. In 1899 Byam Shaw married the artist Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw (1870–1959).

Clan Shaw. Byam Shaw's forebears included the two reverend Shaws (father and son) referred to in Burns' "Twa Herds".[2] Evelyn's family, the Pyke-Notts, were gentry from Swimbridge and Parracombe in North Devon.[3]

The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director

HMS Stanley,[5] and George, a major in the Royal Scots, was killed at Dunkirk in 1940[6] whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artist's semi-autobiographical pastel painting My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John (1903).[7]

Life and work

Byam Shaw was born in

Royal Academy Schools[7] where he won the Armitage Prize in 1892 for his work The Judgement of Solomon.[9]

Throughout his career Byam Shaw worked competently in a wide variety of media including oils, watercolour, pastels, pen and ink and deployed techniques such as

Pre-Raphaelites and took many of his subjects from the poems of Rossetti.[10] He exhibited frequently at Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell's gallery in New Bond Street, where he had at least five solo exhibitions between 1896 and 1916.[10]

Later in his life his popularity as an artist waned, and he turned to teaching for his living.[11] He taught at the Women's Department of King's College London from 1904[7] and in 1910, with Rex Vicat Cole, he founded the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art later renamed simply the "Byam Shaw School of Art".[12] Evelyn Shaw had an active role in the new school, teaching the miniatures class, her area of expertise.[7] Shaw had had a long association with the artist and illustrator Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, who taught at the new school.[13]

The Call, an illustration by Byam Shaw for Canada in Khaki, published in 1917.

At the outbreak of the First World War Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole enlisted in the

1918-1919 influenza epidemic and was interred at Kensal Green Cemetery.[9] His funeral was held at St Barnabas', Addison Road. Years before, he had designed two yellow-hued stained glass windows for this church, depicting Saints Cecilia and Margaret.[14] An ornate red, green and gilt monument to his life, in a 15th-century style, still stands there.[15]

Notable works

  • Jezebel
    Jezebel
  • The Boer War
    The Boer War
  • The Greatest of All Heroes is One
    The Greatest of All Heroes is One
  • The Woman, the Man and the Serpent
    The Woman, the Man and the Serpent

Paintings

Book illustrations

  • Browning, Robert (1897), Poems.[17]
  • Boccaccio (1899), Tales, Joseph Jacobs trans, G. Allen.
  • Chiswick Shakespeare, Works.1899, G. Bell & Sons – 500 plates.
  • Hope, Laurence (1901), The Garden of Kama
     – these illustrations form some of Byam Shaw’s more famous ones.
  • Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes, 25 plates, engraved and printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans, published by Macmillan, 1901{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link).
  • Historic Record of the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, 1904 – commissioned to produce 34 illustrations.[9]
  • Haggard, H. Rider (1903), Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem.[18]
  • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1906), The Blessed Damozel.
  • Hadden, J. Cuthbert (James Cuthbert) (1907), The Great Operas: The Ring of the Nibelung.

Other works

References

  1. ^ "Byam Shaw family", OUP Art Encyclopedia, Answers.
  2. ISBN 978-0850333855
    .
  3. ^ A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by Sir Bernard Burke
  4. ^ "Jim Byam Shaw", Dictionary of art Historians, archived from the original (biography) on 27 November 2010, retrieved 19 December 2007.
  5. ^ "Admirality" (PDF). The London Gazette. No. 35495. 20 March 1942. p. 1317. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. ISBN 0141024372
  7. ^
    ISBN 07190 55199
    .
  8. ^ a b The Art and Life of Byam Shaw by Rex Vicat Cole, Seeley Service and Co. Ltd, London, 1932
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Shaw, Artmagick, archived from the original on 28 October 2007, retrieved 19 December 2007.
  10. ^
    ISBN 0-85331-748-8
    .
  11. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  12. ^ Byam Shaw School of Art, Central St Martins, archived from the original on 18 December 2007.
  13. ^ Crozier, Gladys Beattie (1910), "Where To Study Art – The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art", Every Woman's Encyclopaedia, Chest of books.
  14. ^ Description of Byam Shaw's St Barnabas windows and his memorial, UK: British History.
  15. ^ Photo of the monument to Byam Shaw, UK: British History.
  16. ^ Barringer, Tim (September 2004), "Shaw, (John) Byam Liston (1872–1919)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (subscription required)
  17. ^ "John Byam Liston Shaw" (biography), OUP Art Encyclopedia, Answers.
  18. ^ Visual Haggard: The Illustration Archive "[1]"

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