PD Photo: ‘The Woman The Man The Serpent’, oil painting by Indian-born British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher Byam Shaw (1872-1919), depicting Adam, Eve and the serpent.
John Byam Liston Shaw (1872-1919), known popularly as Byam Shaw, was an Indian-born British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher.
Byam Shaw was born in Madras (now Chennai, India), where his father John Shaw was the Registrar of the High Court of Madras. His family returned to England in 1878 and settled in Kensington. At the age of 15, Byam Shaw entered the St John's Wood Art Schools. From 1890 Shaw studied at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Armitage Prize in 1892 for his work “The Judgement of Solomon”.
Byam Shaw worked with equal ease and mastery in a variety of mediums including oils, watercolors, pastels, pen-and-ink and also specialized in techniques such as dyeing and gilding. Because of his waning popularity as an artist, Byam Shaw took up teaching for a living, and taught at the Women's Department of King's College London from 1904. He founded the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art in 1910 with his Rex Vicat Cole. The institution was later renamed as Byam Shaw School of Art.
Shaw was influenced by Pre-Raphaelites, Rossetti, Millais, and Leighton. He was also inspired by Indian themes and Indian/ Hindu mythology, on which he created a number of paintings.
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