A rare opportunity to buy a large, magnificent oil painting by William Shayer. William Shayer has created this canvas showing a bustling village using humour, observational skill and wonderful artistry to bring together this stand out piece.It is painted on canvas.Canvas Size: 76 x 102cm (30 x 40")Outside Frame Size: 100 x 126cm (39 x 49")William SHAYERExhibited 1825 � 1870 William Shayer, the English painter of animals and landscapes, was born in Southampton in 1811 and died in 1891. He spent his entire life in Hampshire. . He was the son of the painter William Shayer and was born in Chichester. He trained in his father�s studio and began to exhibit his own work at the age of 17. Subsequently he contributed regularly to the Society of Artists, the British Institution and the Royal Academy. His father, also called William, was also an artist and, since both artists signed their work �W.S.�, some confusion can arise between the two. William Joseph Shayer had a studio in Holborn and specialised in coaching and hunting scenes, capturing the golden age of foxhunting at the beginning of the 19th century. Shayer�s work became popular and well known, particularly through engravings, which were mostly published by Ackermann�s. Although self-taught, he attained great prominence during his lifetime and his works fetched high prices during his day. He won several Art Union prizes and was a prolific painter, exhibiting many works at the principal London venues. Shayer worked within the tradition of George Morland and Francis Wheatley, depicting idealised rural scenes of an England untainted by the Industrial Revolution. Colonel Grant described him as 'the epitome of all that is rurally picturesque', claiming that 'beneath sandy banks or in the depths of forest lanes, Shayer will be seen writing in his paints, as truly as the poet with his pen, the calm but passionate legend - 'England my England'". Shayer sometimes collaborate...