Arthur Douglas Peppercorn Explained

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 had annual exhibitions at the gallery of the Royal Watercolour Society, including also the landscape painter James Aumonier, James Stevens Hill and John Leslie Thomson.[2] He died in 1926 in Ashtead, Surrey.[3]

His daughter was the international concert pianist Gertrude Peppercorn (1879–1966), a pupil of Tobias Matthay who made her concert debut at St James's Hall, London in 1897.[4] In 1907 she married the writer Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), the nephew of James Aumonier.[5] Another daughter was Maud Peppercorn, a suffragette. She married the chemical engineer Sir Arthur Duckham (1879–1932).

Notes and References

  1. http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/biog/display/?bid=Pepp_AD University of Glasgow
  2. 30501. Paul A. . Cox. Aumonier, James.
  3. http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/art/online/?action=show_works&item=604&type=artist&display_mode=text Museum of Wales online
  4. Who's Who in Music (1913)
  5. Aumonier S: Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, Introduction pages x-xi, Phaeton, 2008, (pbk.)