Biographies

Claude Allin Shepperson (1867 – 1921) He was born in Beckenham in Kent and began his studies in Law, but switched to art in 1891 and studied in Paris and London. He studied etching under Frank Short and later from 1906. Beginning his career as a landscape painter, he later became an illustrator of books and magazines, working on , for example. During World War I, he produced a series of images on the subject of Tending the Wounded. He did some fairy painting for . Images from this book were later used for supposed photographs of actual fairies, causing a scandal when the fraud was discovered. Lee-Hankey Punch Princess Mary’s Gift Book