Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator.
Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, in 1897 he enrolled in the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea.
After a productive year there, he attended the Royal Academy Schools, winning a Landseer scholarship in 1899 and a British Institute prize in 1900.
After a productive year there, he attended the Royal Academy Schools, winning a Landseer scholarship in 1899 and a British Institute prize in 1900.
There he met Florence Eleanor Chaplin, whom he married in 1904.
The couple bought a house in London, but in 1905 moved to Shamley Green, near Guildford. Shepard was a prolific painter, showing in a number of exhibitions.
By 1906 Shepard had become a successful illustrator, having produced work for illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, while at the same time working as an illustrator on the staff of Punch.
He and Florence had two children, Graham (born 1907) and Mary (born 1909), who both became illustrators.
He and Florence had two children, Graham (born 1907) and Mary (born 1909), who both became illustrators.
His wife, who was also a painter, found a home in London's West End venue for her own modest output during a 25-year career. In his mid-thirties when World War I broke out in 1914, Shepard received a commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Garrison Artillery, an arm of the Royal Artillery.
He was assigned to 105th Siege Battery, which crossed to France in May 1916.
and went into action at the Battle of the Somme. By the autumn of 1916, Shepard started working for the Intelligence Department sketching the combat area within the view of his battery position.
On 16 February 1917, he was made an acting captain whilst second-in-command of his battery, and briefly served as an acting major in late April and early May of that year during the Battle of Arras before reverting to acting captain.
He was promoted to substantive lieutenant on 1 July 1917.
His citation read: Later in 1917 105th Siege Battery participated in the final stages of the Battle of Passchendaele where it came under heavy fire and suffered a number of casualties.
At the end of the year it was sent to help retrieve a disastrous situation on the Italian Front, travelling by rail via Verona before coming into action on the Montello Hill. Shepard missed the Second Battle of the Piave River in April 1918, being on leave in England (where he was invested with his MC by King George V at Buckingham Palace) and where he was attending a gunnery course.
After the Armistice of Villa Giusti in November 1918, Shepard was promoted to acting major in command of the battery, and given the duty of administering captured enemy guns.
Demobilisation began at Christmas 1918 and 105th Siege Battery was disbanded in March 1919. Throughout the war he had been contributing to Punch.
Demobilisation began at Christmas 1918 and 105th Siege Battery was disbanded in March 1919. Throughout the war he had been contributing to Punch.
He was hired as a regular staff cartoonist in 1921 and became lead cartoonist in 1945.
Milne in 1923 by another Punch staffer, E.
Florence Shepard died in 1927.
His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Shepard was recommended to A.
(Growler no longer exists, having been given to his granddaughter Minnie Hunt and subsequently destroyed by a neighbour's dog.) His Pooh work is so famous that 300 of his preliminary sketches were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old. A Shepard painting of Winnie the Pooh, believed to have been painted in the 1930s for a Bristol teashop, is his only known oil painting of the famous teddy bear.
Graham Shepard died when his ship HMS Polyanthus was sunk by German submarine U-952 in September 1943.
In November 1943 Shepard married Norah Carroll, a nurse at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
He was hired as a regular staff cartoonist in 1921 and became lead cartoonist in 1945.
He was removed from this post in 1953 by Punch's new editor, Malcolm Muggeridge.
Shepard Archive. Shepard was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 Birthday Honours. == Personal life == Shepard lived at Melina Place in St John's Wood and from 1955 in Lodsworth, West Sussex.
(Growler no longer exists, having been given to his granddaughter Minnie Hunt and subsequently destroyed by a neighbour's dog.) His Pooh work is so famous that 300 of his preliminary sketches were exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old. A Shepard painting of Winnie the Pooh, believed to have been painted in the 1930s for a Bristol teashop, is his only known oil painting of the famous teddy bear.
The painting is displayed in the Pavilion Gallery at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the city after which Winnie is named. Shepard wrote two autobiographies: Drawn from Memory (1957) and Drawn From Life (1961). In 1972, Shepard gave his personal collection of papers and illustrations to the University of Surrey.
Shepard Archive. Shepard was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 Birthday Honours. == Personal life == Shepard lived at Melina Place in St John's Wood and from 1955 in Lodsworth, West Sussex.
Ernest Howard Shepard OBE, MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator.
They remained married until his death in 1976.
It was purchased at an auction for $243,000 in London late in 2000.
Shepard, The Man who Drew Winnie-the-Pooh'', London: LOM Art, 2015, . Articles == External links == Biography of E.
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