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Warren W. Sheppard (1858-1937)
signed twice 'WARREN SHEPPARD' (lower left and right)
oil on canvas laid to board
16 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (41.0 x 56.5 cm)
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Warren Sheppard was born in Greenwich, New Jersey, and studied art in New York at the Cooper Union and under the Dutch marine artist Mauritz Frederik de Haas. He spent time painting throughout the Mediterranean in the late 1870s and 1880s, as well as in Venice. Sheppard grew up in an environment steeped in the culture of seafaring and was a talented and experienced yachtsman and navigator. He was the author of two books, Practical Navigation (1920) and A Tale of the Sea (1937), the former of which was used as a training manual for the United States Naval Academy. His love for and deep familiarity with the ocean is evident in his vivid, atmospheric seascapes and meticulously detailed ship paintings. Sheppard's work is held at the Toledo Art Museum, Ohio; the Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut; and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, among others.
























