E. H. Shepard

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He was known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Shepard was born in St. John''s Wood, London. Having shown some promise in drawing at St. Paul''s School, Shepard enrolled in Heatherleys School of Fine Art in Chelsea. Having spent a productive year there, Shepard won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools where he would meet Florence Eleanor Chaplin who would become his first wife. 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. This same year his first illustration for Punch was published.... Mehr