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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). Evelyn's sister was
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and took many of his subjects from the poems of Rossetti. 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.
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nude, flanked by her hand-maidens. The model was Rachel Lee, a close friend of Byam Shaw. Unable to sell the painting, he later reworked it so that the central figure was shown clothed.
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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
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Later in his life his popularity as an artist waned, and he turned to teaching for his living. He taught at the Women's Department of
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in 1940 whilst second-in-command of the 1st Battalion. The family is depicted in the artist's semi-autobiographical
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family of lawyers and clerics. The Ayrshire Shaws were a cadet branch of the Shaws of Tordarroch, chiefs of the
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Crozier, Gladys Beattie (1910), "Where To Study Art – The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art",
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Dr. Andrew Shaw of Craigie, and Dr. David Shaw of Coylton – A History of Clan Shaw, by Major C.J.
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class, her area of expertise. Shaw had had a long association with the artist and illustrator
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A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by
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The Art and Life of Byam Shaw by Rex Vicat Cole, Seeley Service and Co. Ltd, London, 1932
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and the art historian James 'Jim' Byam Shaw. Their only daughter, Barbara, married
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At the outbreak of the First World War Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole enlisted in the
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featured Shakespeare presiding over a court of 101 diverse figures including
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A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
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Historic Record of the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
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The couple had five children including the actor and theatre director
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Description of Byam Shaw's St Barnabas windows and his memorial
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British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher (1872–1919)
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Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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in the scheme to decorate one of the corridors in the
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English Art, 1860–1914: Modern Artists and Identity
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Sussex 1983, 602:The Great Operas: The Ring of the Nibelung 138:, who both used "Byam Shaw" as a surname. 31: 1017: 847: 501: 454:standing alongside historical icons like 422:City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 1153:Academics of the Byam Shaw School of Art 994: 977: 907: 905: 903: 874: 872: 870: 868: 866: 864: 862: 803: 587: 489: 291: 1021:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 965: 935:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 575: 1115: 660:Stained glass for St Barnabas Church, 599: 541:Old King Cole's Book of Nursery Rhymes 402:Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum 313:although Shaw soon transferred to the 200:My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John 1163:British Army personnel of World War I 900: 859: 483: 230:. There, he first met fellow artists 1034: 950:, Central St Martins, archived from 524: 1158:Alumni of St John's Wood Art School 938: 675: 299:, an illustration by Byam Shaw for 13: 1143:Academics of King's College London 1003:Photo of the monument to Byam Shaw 726: 462:The Woman, the Man and the Serpent 385:The Woman, the Man and the Serpent 37:Shaw criticising a student's work. 14: 1179: 1072: 436:The Greatest of All Heroes is One 371:The Greatest of All Heroes is One 1168:British people in colonial India 643:Act Drop for the London Coliseum 519:, Works.1899, G. Bell & Sons 377: 363: 349: 335: 328: 289:, who taught at the new school. 205: 1056: 1011: 959: 929: 836:. Manchester University Press. 508:, Joseph Jacobs trans, G. Allen 478:, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1087:New International Encyclopedia 787: 758: 714: 693: 609: 547:, published by Macmillan, 1901 1: 668: 186:, and George, a major in the 736:Dictionary of art Historians 391: 319:1918-1919 influenza epidemic 273:from 1904 and in 1910, with 7: 1104:Works by or about Byam Shaw 969:Every Woman's Encyclopaedia 884:, Artmagick, archived from 287:Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale 261:. He was influenced by the 246:Prize in 1892 for his work 10: 1184: 96:St John's Wood Art Schools 234:(also born in India) and 228:St John's Wood Art School 180:Rear-Admiral A.F. 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Madras
British India
St John's Wood Art Schools
Royal Academy Schools
Glen Byam Shaw
Colnaghi's
Isabel Codrington
Ayrshire
Clan Shaw
Burns
Swimbridge
Parracombe
Glen Byam Shaw
Rear-Admiral A.F. Pugsley
HMS Stanley
Royal Scots
Dunkirk
pastel
Madras
High Court at Madras
Kensington
John Everett Millais
St John's Wood Art School
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe
Rex Vicat Cole
Royal Academy Schools
Armitage
dyeing
gilding

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