William Shayer
The Plough Inn
William Shayer (1787–1879) was an English
Life and career
William Joseph Shayer, senior was born on June 1787, in
He lived mainly in the south of England, in Shirley, Southampton, but painted throughout Hampshire and in a wooded district in the southwest part of Hampshire called the New Forest. Michael Hoy, a wealthy Southampton merchant, was one of his most enthusiastic patrons and bought many of Shayer's paintings of the area.[2]
He sometimes collaborated with other artists. Particularly successful were his collaborations with Edward Charles Williams, where Williams would paint the landscape and Shayer would add in people and animals. He also collaborated with other members of Williams' family, Shayer's second wife Elizabeth Waller said to somehow be related to Williams.[3] The Old Roadside Inn that is shown here is one example of a collaboration between Shayer and Williams, and Near Wantage, Berkshire is another.[4]
Shayer was a competent landscape artist, but he is best known as a
Shayer lived a long life, during which he had two wives and ten children. His eldest son, William Joseph Shayer, junior (1811-1892), was also a painter, and painted in a style very similar to his father. Their paintings are easily confused, which is made all the more difficult by the fact that they probably collaborated on several paintings in the elder Shayer's later years.[8] Three of Shayer senior's younger sons – Edward Dasherwood Shayer (1821-1864), Henry Thring Shayer (1825-1894) and Charles Walker Shayer (1826-1914) – became painters at well, and all assisted him at times in his studio.[9] William Shayer, senior died at the age of 92 on 21 December 1879 at his home at Bladon Lodge near Southampton.[10]
Paintings
Some examples of William Shayer's work.
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William Shayer
Scene in the Isle of Wight, 1823 -
William Shayer
Scene Near Zeldkirch in the Tyrol -
William Shayer
The Start of the Day
Notes
- ^ Stewart & Cutten (1981), p. 1-16; and Wood (1995), p 471.
- ^ Stewart & Cutten (1981), p. 30-39.
- ^ Reynolds (1975), p 18-19; Stewart & Cutten (1981), p. 19-23.
- ^ "Near Wantage, Berkshire" (PDF). Artsolution.net. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
and an image of the painting at Wikigallery. Retrieved 18 Oct 2012. - ^ Stewart & Cutten (1981), p. 17-18.
- ^ Graves (1884), p. 212; and Paviere (1968), p 118.
- ^ "William Shayer paintings". Art UK. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ Wood, 1995, p 472. Also see "Antique Horse Print after William Shayer - 'Lord William'". Antique Prints. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ Stewart & Cutten (1981), p. 40-49; also see description at "Fisherfolk on the Hampshire Coast". Cider House Galleries. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ See the listing for "William Shayer" in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, and in England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915. Both available online at www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 19 Oct 2012.
References
- Graves, Algernon (1884). Dictionary of artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions from 1760–1893. London: George Bell & Sons. 265 p.
- Pavière, Sydney Herbert (1968). Dictionary of Victorian landscape painters. Leigh-On-Sea, England: F. Lewis. 143 p. ISBN 9780853171119.
- Reynolds, Jan (1975). The Williams family of painters. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club. 331 p. ISBN 9780902028418.
- Stewart, B. & Cutten, M. (1981). The Shayer Family of Painters. London: F. Lewis Publishers. 143 p. ISBN 9780853170921.
- Wood, Christopher (1995). Dictionary of Victorian painters (3rd ed.). Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club. 2 vol. ISBN 9789524924139.
External links
- 117 artworks by or after William Shayer at the Art UK site
- Fisherfolk on the Hampshire Coast at Cider House Galleries
- William Shayer biography at Sphinx Fine Art
- Biography and paintings of William Shayer, snr at World Classic Gallery
- William Shayer paintings in British Museums on Art UK
- William Shayer paintings on Wikipaintings
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