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This page is a work in progress, and will be updated with additional information about John Byam Liston Shaw ('Byam Shaw'). Relationship to john william waterhouse:Fellow artist, pupil. Brief Biography:SHAW, John Byam, R.I., A.R.W.S. (1872-1919) Pre-Raphaelite painter in oil and water-colour. Born in Madras, India, on 13th November 1872 and came to England in 1878. Studied at the St. John's Wood School of Art, and at the R.A. Schools from 1889. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1893 and was elected R.I. 1898. He illustrated several books including Browning's Poems 1898, Tales from Boccaccio 1899, Tales of Mystery and Imagination by E.A. Poe 1909. He was a partner with Rex Vicat Cole in The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, Kensington. Lived in London and died on 26th January 1919. Source: Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950, Grant M. Waters, Eastbourne, 1975. R.I.: Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours R.A.: Royal Academy R.W.S.: Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours DOCUMENTED RELATIONSHIP:- Pupil of Waterhouse at the Royal Academy Schools: "The routine at the Academy was in those days very strict... For instruction, there was a day-visitor and an evening visitor, changed each month--members or associates of the Academy; most active amongst these were Hubert Herkomer, Luke Fildes, Marcus Stone, Val Prinsep, F. Dicksee, Yeames, J. Sant, Storey, John Waterhouse, Seymour Lucas, Alma Tadema, A. Gow, A. Hacker, Solomon J. Solomon, G. Leslie, Ouless, H. Woods, and H. Wells, and not unoften the President, Sir Frederick Leighton. When Herkomer's turn came the students were apt to gather round him to hear him discoursing in his attractive and dramatic way. At the lectures either the Keeper or the President sat in a high-backed arm-chair in front of the students, and facing the lecturer. ... He had now spent three years of regular work in the schools and, having passed for his second term of two years, reached the stage when students were encouraged to work more on their own. In a hired studio he began his first large picture (size 42" x 26"). "Silent Noon" "This close companioned inarticulate hour In it we see a girl (painted from his sister) lying on the grass in speckled sunlight, with a man in purple velvet sitting beside her. It shows the admiration he then had for John Waterhouse (R.A.)." Source: The Art & Life of Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1932, pp. 37-40.
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