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

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-born landscape painter who has been likened to

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.University of Glasgow
Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler: Arthur Douglas Peppercorn, 1847-1926 He was one of a group who held annual exhibitions at the gallery of the

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, including also the landscape painter James Aumonier, James Stevens Hill and John Leslie Thomson. He died in 1926 in

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.Museum of Wales online
/ref> His daughter was the international concert pianist Gertrude Peppercorn (1879–1966), a pupil of

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who made her concert debut at

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, London in 1897. In 1907 she married the writer Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), the nephew of James Aumonier.Aumonier S: ''Extremely Entertaining Short Stories'', Introduction pages x-xi, Phaeton, 2008, (pbk.) Another daughter was Maud Peppercorn, a suffragette. She married the chemical engineer Sir Arthur Duckham.

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