Description
Country Homes Antiques Scotland est1985
SOLD William Shayer Snr 1787-1879, stable interior
William Shayer Snr. with horses, a goat and dog, oil on canvas, in original frame, good condition.
Size; 43cm x 59cm
About William Joseph Shayer senior 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 a heraldic painting. Ultimately he began painting oil on canvas and became skilled at portraying woodland scenes with gipsies, people and animals in front of country inns and farmhouses, and beach scenes crowded with boats and fishermen.
A competent landscape artist, He is best known as a figure painter. His work is reminiscent in some respects to the paintings of George Morland, another very popular figure painter. Shayer’s 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 (i.e., 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. His works are on display at many museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Gallery, the Glasgow Art Gallery, and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
At Auction
Lot 31: William Shayer (1787-1879) – Bringing in the day’s catch; Fisher-folk on the coast
Estimate: £6,000 – £8,000
Description: A pair, oil on canvas Each c.71 x 92 cm. (28 x 36 1/4 in)
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Estimate: £4,000 – £6,000 Oil on canvas Signed and dated 183[?]9 lower centre 75 x 102 cm. (30 x 40 in)
Realised: £3,720 plus premium
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Estimate: CAD4,000 – CAD6,000
20″ x 24″ -…
