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English artist (–)

"Ernest Shepard" redirects here. For other uses, see Ernie Shepherd (politician).

Ernest Howard ShepardOBE MC (10 December – 24 March ) 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 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 ), sold for £, ($,) 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 he enrolled in the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelse