* Shepherd (Rupert, 1909-1992). Connemara, 1946
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Notes : Provenance: Leicester Galleries, London, July 1947 Annual Exhibition 'Artists of Fame and Promise' No. 93. (torn exhibition label to verso). Shephard studied at the Slade School of Art from 1926 until 1929. He exhibited at various London venues, including the Cooling Galleries in 1935 (Water-colours by Vivien John, Nicolette Macnamara, Susan Palmer, Rupert Shephard : 22nd November to 5th December), and the Calmann Gallery in 1939, his first one-man show. In 1937, the inaugural year of the Euston Road School of Drawing and Painting, he exhibited with the school's founder members William Coldstream, Claude Rogers, and Victor Pasmore at the Storran Gallery. During the Second World War he worked as an official war artist.
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