Maurice Sheppard (b.1947) Road to Groombridge, Oil on Canvas

Code: 3036

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A beautiful oil on canvas depicting the Road to Groombridge, Sussex by Maurice Sheppard. Excellent quality and condition winter landscape which was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1994.

The work is signed lower right and presented in it's original gilt exhibition frame which would have been chosen by the artist.

The original Royal Academy purchase receipt and letter from the artist to the purchaser are included. In his hand written letter to the purchaser, a Mr Pengelly, Maurice Sheppard states that this painting took 3 years to complete.

Artist: Maurice Sheppard (British, born 1947)
Title: Road to Groombridge, Sussex
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20.5 x 24 inches (52 x 61 cm) including frame

Maurice Sheppard was born in Llangwm, Pembrokeshire in 1947. He studied at Loughborough College of Art, Kingston College of Art and the Royal College of Art.

​He was President of the Royal Watercolour Society from 1984 to 1987, serving also as a Trustee from 1983 to 1995, retiring to Honorary Retired member in 2002. He is a member of the New English Art Club, to which he was elected in 2000.

​Sheppard's work has been collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, the Beecroft Museum and Art Gallery, Southend on Sea and the National Museum of Wales.