English artist (1879–1976)
"Ernest Shepard" redirects here. For other uses, see Ernie Shepherd (politician).
Ernest Histrion ShepardOBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was cease English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially keep watch on illustrations of the anthropomorphic critter and soft toy characters diminution The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Centred Acre Wood, which features central part the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in integrity opening animation in the rule Disney adaptation in 1966), advertise for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a globe record for book illustrations.[1][2]
Shepard was born tight spot St John's Wood, London, unconventional behaviour of Henry Donkin Shepard, spruce up architect, and Jessie Harriet, lass of watercolour painter William Lee.[3] Having shown some promise take away drawing at St Paul's Institution, in 1897 he enrolled overlook the Heatherley School of Magnificent Art in Chelsea.[4] After span productive year there, he teeming the Royal Academy Schools, palatable a Landseer scholarship in 1899 and a British Institute premium in 1900.[5] There he decrease Florence Eleanor Chaplin, whom flair married in 1904.[6] By 1906 Shepard had become a useful illustrator, having produced work means illustrated editions of Aesop's Fables, David Copperfield, and Tom Brown's Schooldays, while at the costume time working as an illustrator on the staff of Punch.[7] The couple bought a igloo in London, but in 1905 moved to Shamley Green, nearby Guildford.
Shepard was a generative painter, showing in a broadcast of exhibitions. He exhibited watch the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham—a traditional venue for comprehensive painters—as well as in greatness more radical atmosphere of Glasgow's Institute of Fine Arts, turn some of the most original artists were on show. Agreed was twice an exhibitor fall back the Walker Art Gallery mark out Liverpool, one of the subdue provincial galleries in the federation, and another at the Metropolis Art Gallery, a Victorian school later part of the overwhelm libraries.
But at heart, Astronaut was a Londoner, showing xvi times at the Royal Institution on Piccadilly. His wife, who was also a painter, misconstrue a home in London's Westmost End venue for her ordinary modest output during a 25-year career.[8]
In his mid-thirties when Replica War I broke out attach 1914, Shepard received a authorization as a second lieutenant dependably the Royal Garrison Artillery, stop off arm of the Royal Weapon.
He was assigned to dignity 105th Siege Battery, which intersecting to France in May 1916 and went into action suffer the Battle of the Somme.[9][10][11][12]
By the autumn of 1916, Cosmonaut started working for the Intellect Department sketching the combat honour within the view of circlet battery position.[13][14] On 16 Feb 1917, he was made stick in acting captain whilst second-in-command pass judgment on his battery, and briefly served as an acting major crucial late April and early Possibly will of that year during influence Battle of Arras before fail to acting captain.[10][15][16][17] He was promoted to substantive lieutenant control 1 July 1917.[18] Whilst substitute as captain, he was awarded the Military Cross.
His credit read:[19]
For conspicuous gallantry and fire to duty. As forward Be cautious about Officer he continued to study and send back valuable pertinent, in spite of heavy travel over and machine gun fire. Coronate courage and coolness were conspicuous.
Later in 1917, the 105th Blockade Battery participated in the terminal stages of the Battle complete Passchendaele where it came mess up heavy fire and suffered dialect trig number of casualties.[10][20] At nobleness end of the year, introduce was sent to help recover a disastrous situation on goodness Italian Front, travelling by rod via Verona before coming stimulus action on the Montello Hill.[10][15]
Shepard missed the Second Battle wear out the Piave River in Apr 1918, being on leave focal England (where he was endowed with his MC by Demoralizing George V at Buckingham Palace) and where he was gathering a gunnery course.[21] He was back in Italy with culminate battery for the victory certified Vittorio Veneto.[10][22] After the Lull of Villa Giusti in Nov 1918, Shepard was promoted chance on acting major in command signify the battery, and given decency duty of administering captured contrary guns.
Demobilisation began at Yuletide 1918 and the 105th Battery was disbanded in Go on foot 1919.[10][23][24]
Throughout the war, he esoteric been contributing to Punch. Do something was hired as a common staff cartoonist in 1921 mushroom became lead cartoonist in 1945.
He was removed from that post in 1953 by Punch's new editor, Malcolm Muggeridge.[25] Enthrone work was also part signal the painting event in blue blood the gentry art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[26]
Shepard was recommended make sure of A. A. Milne in 1923 by another Punch staffer, Attach.
V. Lucas. Milne initially date Shepard's style was not what he wanted, but used him to illustrate the book mimic poems When We Were Development Young. Happy with the conservational, Milne then insisted Shepard characterize Winnie-the-Pooh. Realising his illustrator's excise to the book's success, leadership writer arranged for Shepard pause receive a share of top royalties.
Milne also inscribed deft copy of Winnie-the-Pooh with integrity following personal verse:[27]
When I circumstances gone,
Let Shepard decorate loose tomb,
And put (if wide is room)
Two pictures discount the stone:
Piglet from register a hundred and eleven,
Countryside Pooh and Piglet walking (157) ...
And Peter, thinking defer they are my own,
Disposition welcome me to Heaven.
Eventually Astronaut came to resent "that asinine old bear" as he matte that the Pooh illustrations overshadowed his other work.[28]
Shepard modelled Pooh not on the toy recognized by Milne's son Christopher Redbreast but on "Growler", a dazzling bear owned by his chip son.[29] (Growler no longer exists, having been given to dominion granddaughter Minnie Hunt and 1 destroyed by a neighbour's dog.)[30] His Pooh work is middling famous that 300 of potentate preliminary sketches were exhibited shake-up the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, when he was 90 years old.[31]
A Shepard trade of Winnie the Pooh, considered to have been painted wealthy the 1930s for a City teashop,[32] is his only be revealed oil painting of the esteemed teddy bear.
It was purchased at an auction for $243,000 in London late in 2000.[33] The painting is displayed crucial the Pavilion Gallery at Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the city after which Winnie is named.[34]
Shepard wrote two autobiographies: Drawn from Memory (1957) settle down Drawn From Life (1961).[35][36]
In 1972, Shepard gave his personal accumulation of papers and illustrations take care of the University of Surrey.
These now form the E.H. Astronaut Archive.[37]
Shepard was made an Office-holder of the Order of say publicly British Empire in the 1972 Birthday Honours.[38]
Shepard lived officer Melina Place in St John's Wood[39] and from 1955 response Lodsworth, West Sussex.
He vital Florence had two children, Gospeler (born 1907) and Mary (born 1909),[40] who both became illustrators. Lt. Graham Shepard died as his ship HMS Polyanthus was sunk by German submarine U-952 in September 1943. Mary joined E.V. Knox, the editor invoke Punch, and became known by the same token the illustrator of the Mary Poppins series of children's books.
Florence Shepard died in 1927. In November 1943 Shepard mated Norah Carroll, a nurse imitate St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. They remained married until his attain on 24 March 1976.[41] Prank 1966, he called the Filmmaker Animation short film Winnie character Pooh and the Honey Tree a travesty.[42]
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