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1833 Richmond, Virginia - 1912 Richmond, Virginia. Known for: Genre, landscape and portrait painting, tobacco label illustration.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter who first gained attention for designing tobacco labels. He studied in New York City, Paris before... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter who first gained attention for designing tobacco labels. He studied in New York City, Paris before 1860, and London and Paris between 1877-1878. He enlisted in the Civil War with the Richmond... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter who first gained attention for designing tobacco labels. He studied in New York City, Paris before 1860, and London and Paris between 1877-1878. He enlisted in the Civil War with the Richmond Howitzers in the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of engineering officer. It has been written that he devoted most of his spare time to drawing and painting his fellow soldiers, and he is... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter who first gained attention for designing tobacco labels. He studied in New York City, Paris before 1860, and London and Paris between 1877-1878. He enlisted in the Civil War with the Richmond Howitzers in the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of engineering officer. It has been written that he devoted most of his spare time to drawing and painting his fellow soldiers, and he is credited for providing valuable visual records of the War from the perspective of a Southerner. After the War, he continued his career as a painter and book illustrator, and as a sculptor, completed a commission, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, in Richmond.... Read full biography
Born in Richmond, Virginia, William Sheppard was a watercolorist, illustrator, teacher, and painter who first gained attention for designing tobacco labels. He studied in New York City, Paris before 1860, and London and Paris between 1877-1878. He enlisted in the Civil War with the Richmond Howitzers in the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of engineering officer. It has been written that he devoted most of his spare time to drawing and painting his fellow soldiers, and he is credited for providing valuable visual records of the War from the perspective of a Southerner. After the War, he continued his career as a painter and book illustrator, and as a sculptor, completed a commission, Soldiers and Sailors Monument, in Richmond. He painted Southern genre and landscape scenes, and traveling to London, copied a series of portraits involved in Virginia history.... Read full biography
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Keywords (31)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •West Virginia Before 1920
Art Association
- •Society of Illustrators-
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Civil War Artist and/or Photographer
- •Genre Specialty
- •Illustration Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Society of Illustrators