Raymond Sheppard

Raymond Sheppard (3 March 1913 – 21 April 1958) was a British artist and illustrator of books for children and adults. He wrote books on drawing techniques, but is best known for his illustrations of Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea and the works of Jim Corbett.

Life

Sheppard was born on 3 March 1913, and was educated at Christ's College, Finchley. From childhood he had a love of nature, from his time playing in Scratchwood in Mill Hill, north-west London, to his time spent in London Zoo sketching live animals. Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (1949)

Publications Sheppard's work was used in publications including Lilliput, The Studio, Picture Post, John Bull and Everybody's.

As author How to Draw Birds (Studio, 1940) Drawing at the Zoo (Studio, 1949) More Birds to Draw (Studio, 1956)

As illustrator The Rolling Year (W. J. Blyton) (Blackie and Son, 1936) The Silent Hunter (Phyllis Briggs) (Blackie, 1939) Man-Eaters of Kumaon (Jim Corbett) (Oxford University Press, 1947) Tam Tain's Trout Book (Tam Tain) (W & R Chambers, 1947) The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag (Jim Corbett) (Oxford University Press, 1948) The Adventures of Pip (Enid Blyton) (Sampson Low, 1948) More Adventures of Pip (Enid Blyton) (Sampson Low, 1948) Birds of Woodland and Hedgerow (Elizabeth Gould) (Blackie, 1950) The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) (The Reprint Society, 1952) Iceblink (Rutherford Montgomery) (Hutchinson, 1952) The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon (Jim Corbett) (Oxford University Press, 1954) The Island of Birds (Olivia FitzRoy) (Jonathan Cape, 1954) Tree Tops (Jim Corbett) (Oxford University Press, 1955) MINADO - The Devil Dog (Erle Wilson) (Andre Deutsch, 1955) Way for a Sailor (Peter Dawlish) (Oxford University Press, 1955) The Hunted Head (Olivia FitzRoy) (Jonathan Cape, 1956) Seal Morning (Rowena Farre) (Hutchinson, 1957) The Constant Fisherman (Major H E Morritt) (A & C Black, 1957) Fire in the Flint (Wilfrid Robertson) (Basil Blackwell. Oxford, 1957) Tan. A Wild Dog (Thomas C. Hinkle) (Collins, 1957) Seal Morning (Rowena Farre) (Hutchinson, 1957) Animal Doctor (Laurence Meynell) (Oxford University Press, 1958) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) (Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited?) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) (Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited?) HAMPTON ON PIKE FISHING by J[ohn] Fitzgerald Hampton London & Edinburgh:W & R. Chambers Limited, 1947