William Joseph Shayer

Born: 1881

Death: 1892

Biography:

William Shayer (1787–1879) was an English landscape painter and figure painter during the Victorian era. William Joseph Shayer, senior was a self-taught artist, who began by painting decorations on rush-bottom chairs, and moved on to painting carriages in the town of Guildford, after which he started doing heraldic painting. Ultimately he began pai...