George Shepherd (artist)

George Shepherd
Watercolour of Aldermaston looking up the street with house on the left and right and a public house in the foreground on the right
Shepherd's watercolour of Aldermaston (1819)
Born(1784-12-05)5 December 1784
London
Died1862
NationalityBritish
EducationDr. Cox Macro's sketching academy
Known forDraughtsman, watercolour painter
AwardsSilver palette – Society of Arts
1803
Silver palette – Society of Arts
1804

George "Sidney" Shepherd (5 December 1784 – 1862) was a British draughtsman and watercolourist.[1] At one time, George Shepherd and George Sidney Shepherd were thought to be two different people;[2] it is now believed that they are one and the same person.[3]

  1. ^ "Shepherd, George Sidney". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25331. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Shepherd, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  3. ^ Bedfordshire Artists (2010) George "Sidney" Shepherd (1784 – 1862) (via archive.org)