Auguste Louis Lepere was born in Paris the son of the sculptor Francois Lepere. At the age of 13 he was apprenticed to the English wood-engraver Burn Smeeton to learn the trade of a commercial wood-engraver. He took up etching in 1889 and exhibited his first works at the Salon de la Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1890. An illustrator of books and a contributor to many of the late nineteenth century art journals with etchings, wood-engravings and lithographs. He was also a teacher and among others, taught Lucien Pissarro how to engrave in wood at the request of the artists father Camille Pissarro. Ref: Charles Saunier: Auguste Lepere:peintre,graveur, decorateur de livres. 1931.