Sydney Horne Shepherd, Scottish, 1909-93, mixed media, Madonna and Child, signed upper right hand corner and dated 1955, on the reverse December 1955

Sidney Horne Shepherd, known as 'Toby' to his family and friends, lived in Hampstead from the 1950s until 1974 when he retired to West Sussex.

Born in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy, Sidney D'Horne Shepherd attended Dundee School of Art from 1924 - 1926 and then Glasgow School of Art where in 1927 he won a travelling scholarship and prizes for portrait and landscape. In 1929 he took the Painting Diploma, winning a post-diploma scholarship and becoming an Assistant Art Teacher at Glasgow Art School from 1930 - 32.

A series of portrait commissions took him to London where in 1937 he became a lecturer at Shoreditch Training College until joining the National Fire Service in 1941..

• Height 48.5 cm / 19 ¹⁄₄"
• Width 32.5 cm / 13"