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E.H. Shepard

Biography

Ernest Howard Shepard was born on December 1, 1879 in London to Henry and Jessie Shepard. Ernest’s father, Henry, was an architect from a highly respected family, and his mother was the daughter of distinguished watercolorist, William Lee. Creativity being prominent on both sides of Ernest’s family, it was unsurprising that his father wanted him to become an artist. Though his early years of childhood were happy, his life changed at ten years old when his mother died. He and his two siblings moved in with their aunts until Henry Shepard could save enough money to buy a house for them all in Hammersmith. Once settled in their new home, Ernest attended school at St. Paul’s where his uncle was headmaster. It was clear to his teachers from a young age that Ernest would excel at art, so he was enrolled in an advanced drawing class. Like Gordon Browne, Ernest took additional art classes on Saturdays at Heatherley’s art school in London. Though Ernest envisioned a more adventurous life for himself, he pursued a career in art by winning

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Ernest Howard Shepard was born at 55 Springfield Road, St John’s Wood, London, on 10 December 1879, the youngest of the three children of the architect and amateur watercolourist, Henry Dunkin Shepard, and his wife, Jessie, the daughter of the watercolourist, William Lee. He was initially educated at St John’s Wood Preparatory School. Then, following his mother’s death in 1890, and the family’s move to Hammersmith, he attended Colet Court School and St Paul’s School. He was encouraged in his early talent for drawing at St Paul’s, and took extra classes at Heatherley’s School of Art. In 1897, he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools, and studied there until 1902, winning the Landseer Scholarship, the British Institution Prize and other awards.

Receiving much pleasure from his work as an oil painter, Shepard exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts for the first time in 1901, while he was living at 52 Glebe Place, Chelsea.

In 1904, his painting, Followers, was bought from the RA by Durban Art Gallery. In the same year, he m

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E. H. Shepard

English artist (1879–1976)

"Ernest Shepard" redirects here. For other uses, see Ernie Shepherd (politician).

Ernest Howard ShepardOBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.

Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in the opening animation in the first Disney adaptation in 1966), sold for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a world record for book illustrations.^[1]^[2]

Early life and career

Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London, son of Henry Donkin Shepard, an architect, and Jessie Harriet, daughter of watercolour painter William Lee.^[3] Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, in 1897 he enrolled in the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea.^[4] After a productive year there, he a