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English artist (1879–1976)
"Ernest Shepard" redirects here. For other uses, see Ernie Shepherd (politician).
Ernest Howard ShepardOBE MC (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator.
He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in the opening animation in the first Disney adaptation in 1966), sold for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a world record for book illustrations.[1][2]
Early life and career
Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London, son of Henry Donkin Shepard, an architect, and Jessie Harriet, daughter of watercolour painter William Lee.[3] Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, in 1897 he enrolled in