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William Shayer Senior
Oil on Canvas. Signed bottom right
Canvas Size: 30 x 40" (76 x 102cm)
Outside Frame Size: 39 x 49" (99 x 125cm)
1787-1879
William Shayer was born in Southampton and spent his entire life in Hampshire. He was a self-taught artist but he attained great prominence during his lifetime and his works sold well. Shayer was a prolific painter and he exhibited widely in London. He was elected a member of the Society of British artists in 1829 and he showed his works there until 1879. He also exhibited at the British Institution between 1827 and1862 and at the Royal Academy between 1820 and 1843. The artist sometimes collaborated with the artist Edward Charles Williams and he had three sons who all became painters.
Shayer’s work followed the tradition of George Morland and Francis Wheatley. He painted idyllic rural scenes of the English countryside untainted by the Industrial Revolution.
Shayers work though has a depth and brightness to it missing from the paintings of many of his contemporaries, due to his skilful application of glaze (ie, spreading a thin, oily, transparent layer of paint over a dry opaque paint).
He exhibited at the Royal Academy (6 works), the British Institution (82 works), and at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists (338 works). He also exhibited in many of the lesser-known Victorian art venues as well.
- Creator:WILLIAM SHAYER SENIOR (1787-1879) (1787 - 1879, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 49 in (124.46 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:This painting depicts a charming scene of English country folk enjoying a drink at the Royal Oak and it captures the atmosphere of ‘old England’ to perfection. The painting is in a very good condition having benefited from a light clean and a reline.
- Gallery Location:St. Albans, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2469213238092
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