James Shaw (artist)

James Shaw (12 January 1815 – 1 September 1881) was a Scottish painter, photographer, engraver, lithographer, surveyor, and lawyer.

His father was a clerk and proofreader who painted for pleasure, and his brother George Baird Shaw.

[1] In September 1836, sponsored by Justice Thomas McCornock, he left Edinburgh for Jamaica to be a bookkeeper.

[1] At some point he lived at 17 Wellington Street, Kensington, in a former pub which had been converted into a dwelling.

[2] In 1857, he showed some of his paintings at the first exhibition of the South Australian Society of Arts, of which he was a founding member.