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Our English Coasts
is an oil-on-canvas painting completed by the British
Pre-Raphaelite
painter
William Holman Hunt
in 1852. The painting was commissioned by Charles Theobald Maud and depicts a flock of sheep on the coast of
Sussex
, at a scenic location on the cliffs at
Fairlight Glen
. In 1946
Our English Coasts
was acquired by the
Tate Gallery
through the
Art Fund
.
Painting:
William Holman Hunt
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