Rupert A Shephard (1909-1992), Victor Sassoon's House, Heytesbury, 1944

Watercolour landscape depicting a pastoral landscape and large country house. Horses graze beneath mature trees, autumnal colours prevail.Signed and titled bottom right. Interestingly, this is the home of the soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon, a place frquented by other literary types such as E.M. Forster.

Rupert Shephard was an English painter and illustrator, and also a teacher, including at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in the 1940s. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1972. His work is included in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and British Musem in London.

Artworks can be viewed and purchased in our Clare Street shop. 27 x 37cm. In limed oak frame. If ordered online, delivery is €20.00 nationwide (Ireland). Overseas shipping is available on request.