William Joseph Shayer (1811-1892) United KingdomOil/ Canvas, Signed and Dated, measures 33" x17" William Shayer was an English landscape painter and figure painter who became prominent during the Victorian era. William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs. He moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing heraldic painting. Ultimately, he began painting oil on canvas and became skilled at portraying woodland scenes with gypsies, people and animals in front of country inns and farm houses, and beach scenes crowded with boats and fishermen

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