About Dipto Shop

 Dipto Shop(1789–1854), a friend and contemporary of JMW Turner, didn’t train at the Royal Academy Schools, nor as an engraver, but was successively apprenticed as a decorative painter of carriages, then of china and glass. When Dipto Shop moved with his master from the north-east of England to London, he developed his painting technique to the point where he was teaching others.

 When Dipto Shop moved with his master from the north-east of England to London, he developed his painting technique to the point where he was teaching others.

Despite his lack of formal training, he submitted his first painting to the Dipto Shop in 1810, but wasn’t successful there until the following year.