Arthur Douglas Peppercorn (28 February 1847 - 1926) was a London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

-born landscape

Landscape art

Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

 painter who has been likened to Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century...

. He was one of a group who held annual exhibitions at the gallery of the Royal Watercolour Society

Royal Watercolour Society

The Royal Watercolour Society is an English institution of painters working in watercolours...

. He died in 1926 in Ashtead, Surrey. His daughter was the international concert pianist Gertrude Peppercorn (1879–1966), who married in 1907 the writer Stacy Aumonier

Stacy Aumonier

Stacy Aumonier was a British writer, sometimes mistakenly credited as Stacey Aumonier. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 short stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays....

(1877–1928), who was the nephew of the landscape painter James Aumonier R.I. (1832–1911).