The family is depicted in the artist's semi-autobiographical pastel painting My Wife, My Bairns and My Wee Dog John (1903).

[9] There, he first met fellow artists Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe (also born in India) and Rex Vicat Cole.

From 1890, Shaw studied at the Royal Academy Schools[7] where he won the Armitage Prize in 1892 for his work The Judgement of Solomon.

[9] Throughout his career Byam Shaw worked competently in a wide variety of media including oils, watercolour, pastels, pen and ink and deployed techniques such as dyeing and gilding.

[9] Not long after the war ended, Shaw collapsed and died at age 46 in the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic and was interred at Kensal Green Cemetery.

Years before, he had designed two yellow-hued stained glass windows for this church, depicting Saints Cecilia and Margaret.