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William Shiels, RSA (Scottish, 1783-1857) Three Lonk rams in a landscape with ewes and a church beyond signed and dated lower left "Shiels / 18**" oil on canvas 78 x 109cm (30 x 43in) Provenance: Private collection, Yorkshire Other Notes: William Shiels was a Scottish 19th Century artist, known for his commissioned life-size paintings of horses, sheep and cattle, all depicted with scientific accuracy. Having trained initially in Edinburgh and then London, he worked in both cities and in his home region around Kelso for most of his life. The Lonk, carefully bred over 200 years in the Pennines - the flock book was started in 1905 - is a particularly handsome, more powerfully built version of the ubiquitous black-faced hill sheep of the northern countiesLined and cleaned - rather a stiff relining.  Blacks have coalesced a bit. 

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