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E. H. Shepard

1879 - 1976

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Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. Shepard's original 1926 illustrated map of the Hundred Acre Wood, which features in the opening pages of Winnie-the-Pooh (and also appears in the opening animation in the first Disney adaptation in 1966), sold for £430,000 ($600,000) at Sotheby's in London, setting a world record for book illustrations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. H. Shepard has received more than 703,863 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. E. H. Shepard is the 1,152nd most popular painter (up from 1,541st in 2019), the 2,172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,432nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, E. H. Shepard ranks 1,152 out of 2,023. Before him are Huang Gongwang, Johannes Lingelbach, Ben Shahn, Cornelis Schut, Eugène Isabey, and Pamphilus. After him are Boccaccio Boccaccino, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Maria van Oosterwijck, Erró, Henri Lebasque, and Gerhard von Kügelgen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, E. H. Shepard ranks 104. Before him are Prince Mirko of Montenegro, Rafael de Nogales Méndez, Bernhard Kellermann, José Giral, Mostafa El-Nahas, and Angelina Beloff. After him are Duchess Sophia Charlotte of Oldenburg, Petar Živković, Joe Hill, Frank Bridge, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and Gorazd. Among people deceased in 1976, E. H. Shepard ranks 107. Before him are Marcel Broodthaers, Jack Cassidy, Karl Schäfer, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, Pyotr Koshevoy, and Paul Gallico. After him are Werner March, Boris Iofan, Nam Il, Nikolay Nosov, Jean Servais, and José Lezama Lima.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, E. H. Shepard ranks 2,172 out of 8,785. Before him are Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Naomie Harris (1976), Nevil Maskelyne (1732), Wendy Hiller (1912), and John Needham (1713). After him are Tom Holland (1996), Ronald Colman (1891), Henry Percy (1364), Patricia Bredin (1935), Richard Baxter (1615), and Michael Powell (1905).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, E. H. Shepard ranks 38. Before him are Roger Fry (1866), Walter Crane (1845), George Frederic Watts (1817), Richard Parkes Bonington (1801), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), and Frank Dicksee (1853). After him are Richard Wilson (1714), Bridget Riley (1931), Arthur Hughes (1832), George Dawe (1781), Herbert James Draper (1863), and George Turner (1841).

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