Rupert Shephard (1909-1992)

Rupert Shephard was born in London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1926 to 1929 and began to show with London Group, Cooling Gallery and with Euston Road School painters, sharing studios with William Coldstream and Victor Pasmore. He had first solo show at Calmann Gallery in 1939, the year he painted two portraits of Dylan Thomas.