Collection: John Skeaping   1901 - 1980  Follow artist

John Skeaping was an English sculptor and equine painter. 

Born in South Woodford, Essex, Skeaping studied at Goldsmith’s College, London, and later at the Royal Academy. In 1924 he won the British Prix de Rome and its scholarship to the British School at Rome. 

Skeaping was the first husband of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, with whom he exhibited during the 1920s. He was a member of the London Group, worked in Mexico. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1960. He latterly lived in Devon near the village of Chagford and moved to the Camargue, France in 1959.