George Shepherd

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

Biography Shepherd was a topographical, architectural and landscape painter. Until 1793 he lived in France (where his younger brother was born), returning to Britain on the outbreak of the Great French War. Shepherd was awarded a silver palette by the Society of Arts in 1803 and again in the following year. He first married in 1812, Anna Sarah Lonnon of Bedfordshire. He Illustrated, with others, Architectura Ecclesiastica Londini (1819) by Charles Clarke. See, for example, St. George's Bloomsbury 1811. He worked on and off throughout his career with publisher, Rudolph Ackermann, who published a series of street views, Ackermann's repository of Arts, containing illustrations from both George, and his brother, Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. George Shepherd painted a watercolour of Aldermaston in 1819.

In 1831, Shepherd was one of the founder members of the resurrected New Society of Painters in Watercolours (now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours). In 1850 there was a movement to expel Shepherd from the resurrected society for non-payment of dues, but on further investigation he was deemed to be impoverished and was instead made an Honorary Member. 10 years later, he became bedridden and was granted a pension.