• Continue walking up Penton Street…

• Turn right into Tolpuddle Street.

• Turn left into Cloudesley Road.

• Turn right into Batchelor Street where the next plaque is at number 26.   ///keys.state.rushed

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd was an English landscape painter who was born, and died in Islington. Although remembered as a master recorder of 19th century London, in his early years he was also an accomplished illustrator of nature. Well known for his architectural works characterised by fine attention to detail, he was employed to illustrate architecture in London, Edinburgh, Bath and Bristol and his paintings formed the basis for steel engravings in many books including ‘Metropolitan Improvements’ and ‘London and Its Environs’ .

His champion patron was royal interior decorator and collector Frederick Crace. Between 1809 and 1859 Crace commissioned him to paint old London buildings before they were demolished and much of his work survives in the Crace collection at the British Museum.