Claude Allin Shepperson

Claude Allin Shepperson ARA ARWS ARE RI RMS (25 October 1867 – 30 December 1921) was a British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing mainly in social scenes and landscapes.

He was born in Beckenham, Kent, England on 25 October 1867, to Allin Thomas Shepperson of Winsland Bargerton, South Devon, and Florence Mary, the eldest daughter of William Hinkes Cox, Justice of the Peace.[1].

[10][11] Shepperson worked in a wide variety of media including oil, watercolour, chalk, charcoal, pastel, ink and pencil, and he was a practised etcher and lithographer.

[note 1] Shepperson was also a tutor at Bradshaw's Press Art School, and provided feedback on the work submitted by students.

[20][3][21] Sheppersons was not only a painter, a book and magazine illustrator, a cartoonist for Punch, but also a commercial artist, producing images for advertisements.

Ellwood stated that Shepperson was "an inspired draughtsman who can give us the smartest English girl or the rustiest farm hand with equal penetration in a style which is always distinguished.

[31]: 157 Shepperson prepared the following pen and ink illustration for a 1899 reissue of the 1851 book Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow.