Artist
George Shepherd
George Shepherd is a British Romanticism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
George Shepherd’s watercolours document 18th-century Britain in crisp detail. They show Aylesbury’s spires, the lost Peterborough House on the Thames, the twisting stone of Roslin Chapel, and quiet corners of Rye and Primrose Hill bathed in dusk. These scenes belong to the Picturesque travel tradition when artists carried small albums to sketch local landmarks. Tap View of Aylesbury, Bucks to step into a sunlit market town from 1819.
Works by George Shepherd
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.