Charles Leaver Shaw - Artist Info

About Charles Leaver Shaw

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Charles Leaver, C L Shaw
  • Biography

    Charles Leaver Shaw
    Born: 1853 Walsall, Stafforshire England
    Father: William Fleetwood Shaw from Nottingham, England

    Charles L Shaw originally was a lace designer. In 1876 he was an artist living on Coburg Road in Nottingham, England where he exhibited a landscape at the Birmingham Society of Artists Exhibition. From 1879 he regularly exhibited at the Local Artists Exhibition in Nottingham.

    The paintings exhibited by Shaw were all landscapes in oil, depicting Welsh, Scottish and local scenes. Shaw’s surviving pictures reveal his love of riverside views. Shaw was concerned to capture effects of atmosphere and light on canvas.
    Source: The Lives and Works of Nottingham Artists fro...

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