12 Facts About Byam Shaw

John Byam Liston Shaw, commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher.

In 1899, Byam Shaw married the artist, Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott, later known as Evelyn CE Shaw.

Byam Shaw came from an Ayrshire family of lawyers and clerics.

Byam Shaw's forebears included the two reverend Shaws referred to in Burns' "Twa Herds".

Byam Shaw was born in Madras; his father, John, was the registrar of the High Court at Madras.

Byam Shaw showed early artistic promise, and in 1887 his work was shown to John Everett Millais, who recommended that the 15-year-old should enter the St John's Wood Art School.

From 1890, Byam Shaw studied at the Royal Academy Schools where he won the Armitage Prize in 1892 for his work The Judgement of Solomon.

Byam Shaw was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites and took many of his subjects from the poems of Rossetti.

Byam Shaw exhibited frequently at Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell's gallery in New Bond Street, where he had at least five solo exhibitions between 1896 and 1916.

Evelyn Byam Shaw had an active role in the new school, teaching the miniatures class, her area of expertise.

Byam Shaw had had a long association with the artist and illustrator Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, who taught at the new school.

Byam Shaw produced war cartoons that were published in many newspapers and found work with memorial commissions.