Sea shanty until that decade. A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel "Treasure Island" (1883). Quotes of "Blow the Man Down" were particularly plentiful. Rudyard Kipling romanticized the idea of the sailor's sea song within the poetic genre with his works "The First Chantey" and "The Last Chantey" (1893). While shanties were historically understood as work songs, the word "shanty" has often been used in popular culture since the mid-20th century as a catch-all term that
Robert Macaulay Stevenson especially by the French portrait and landscape painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He worked from studios in Glasgow, at Montreuil-sur-Mer in France, at Kirkcudbright, and at Bardowie Loch, near Milngavie. In 1890 Stevenson married Jean Shields. She died giving birth to their daughter Jean Macaulay Stevenson. On 30 April 1902 Stevenson married the Scottish artist Stansmore Dean. Stevenson died in 1952. Robert Macaulay Stevenson Robert Macaulay Stevenson (1854 – 1952) was a Scottish painter associated with the Glasgow Boys. Robert Macaulay Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1854. He was one of four sons and three girls born to Jesse Macaulay and