The Serene Realism of William Shuttleworth To wander through the canvases of William Shuttleworth is to step into a vanished era of British tranquility, where the rolling hills of Cheshire and the industrious yet picturesque streets of Stockport were captured with an almost tender devotion. Born in 1834, Shuttleworth emerged as a painter of profound observational skill, a man whose brush possessed the unique ability to freeze the flee…