On 13th November 1872 John Byam Liston Shaw was born in Madras aka Chennai, India. The son of John Shaw, registrar of the High Court at Madras, and his wife, Sophia Alicia Byam Gunthorpe.
In 1878 John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 5], with his family returned to England and lived at 103 Holland Row.
1894. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 21]. "Slent Noon".
1896. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 23]. "Jezebel". The painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1896, originally depicted Jezebel nude, flanked by her hand-maidens. The model was Rachel Lee, a close friend of Byam Shaw. Unable to sell the painting, he later reworked it so that the central figure was shown clothed.
1897. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 24]. "Love's Baubles".
In 1899 John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 26] and Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott [aged 28] were married.
1901. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 28]. "Such is Life".
1901. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 28]. "The Boer War". The subtitle for this painting referring to the Second Boer War (1899–1902) is 'Last summer green things were greener, brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer', from Christina Rossetti's poem "A Bird Song".
1903. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 30]. "The Fool Who Would Please Every Man".
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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1903-1904. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 30]. "The Prodigal's Return".
1904. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 31]. "Margaret Nettlefold before Her Dining Room at Winterbourne".
1911. John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 38]. "The Woman, the Man and the Serpent".
On 26th January 1919 John Byam Liston Shaw [aged 46] died.
On 16th January 1960 [his former wife] Evelyn Caroline Eunice Pyke-Nott [aged 89] died.