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* DAVID SHEPHERD CBE FRSA FGRA (BRITISH 1931 - 2017), OVER THE WATER TO ARRAN, FROM BUTE
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* DAVID SHEPHERD CBE FRSA FGRA (BRITISH 1931 - 2017), OVER THE WATER TO ARRAN, FROM BUTE
image size 28cm x 56cm, overall size 41cm x 68cm
oil on canvas, signed, titled, dated 2008 and inscribed 'to Colin and Sue - pleased that you have my Bute landscape!' verso
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image size 28cm x 56cm, overall size 41cm x 68cm
Note: British painter and wildlife conservationist, born in London. He started his career with aviation subjects, but in 1960 he began painting African wildlife and it is in this area that he has become internationally famous—not only with his paintings (and popular prints reproduced from them), but also through his fundraising activities to preserve endangered species. He published several books on his work and also an autobiography entitled The Man Who Loves Giants (1975, second edition 1989); this was also the title of a BBC television documentary on his life. Apart from wildlife, his great passion is steam locomotives—likewise a favourite subject in his paintings (the ‘Giants’ in the title of his autobiography refers to both elephants and engines). Shepherd also painted many landscapes, portraits and occasional religious works.
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* DAVID SHEPHERD CBE FRSA FGRA (BRITISH 1931 - 2017), OVER THE WATER TO ARRAN, FROM BUTE
image size 28cm x 56cm, overall size 41cm x 68cm
oil on canvas, signed, titled, dated 2008 and inscribed 'to Colin and Sue - pleased that you have my Bute landscape!' verso
framed
image size 28cm x 56cm, overall size 41cm x 68cm
Note: British painter and wildlife conservationist, born in London. He started his career with aviation subjects, but in 1960 he began painting African wildlife and it is in this area that he has become internationally famous—not only with his paintings (and popular prints reproduced from them), but also through his fundraising activities to preserve endangered species. He published several books on his work and also an autobiography entitled The Man Who Loves Giants (1975, second edition 1989); this was also the title of a BBC television documentary on his life. Apart from wildlife, his great passion is steam locomotives—likewise a favourite subject in his paintings (the ‘Giants’ in the title of his autobiography refers to both elephants and engines). Shepherd also painted many landscapes, portraits and occasional religious works.
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