Arthur Douglas Peppercorn

Arthur Douglas Peppercorn (28 February 1847 - 1926) was a London-born landscape painter who has been likened to Corot.[1] He was one of a group who held annual exhibitions at the gallery of the Royal Watercolour Society.[2] He died in 1926 in Ashtead, Surrey.[3] His daughter was the international concert pianist Gertrude Peppercorn (1879–1966), who married in 1907 the writer Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), who was the nephew of the landscape painter James Aumonier R.I. (1832–1911).[4]

References

  1. ^ University of Glasgow Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler: Arthur Douglas Peppercorn, 1847-1926
  2. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Aumonier, James
  3. ^ Museum of Wales online
  4. ^ Aumonier S: Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, Introduction pages x-xi, Phaeton, 2008, ISBN 9780955375637 (pbk.)