William Somerville Shanks
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William Somerville Shanks
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William Somerville Shanks ARSA, RSA, RSW was a Scottish artist who was a tutor in painting and drawing at the Glasgow School of Art for 29 years. His painting Tiddley Winks sold for £181,250 at Sotheby's in 2008, a record for the artist. William Somerville Shanks was born in Gourock in Renfrewshire in 1864 to Helen and John Shanks (1923-1913), a horse proprietor who worked as a clothier and tailor in his native town of Paisley where generations of his family had been weavers. According to the 18
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Scottish artist (1864–1951)
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2024-02-10T21:51:43Z
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