The award-winning Nature writer and regular Country Life contributor John Lewis-Stempel chooses a bucolic scene with quite probably the longest title of any artwork ever to feature on this page.
John Lewis-Stempel on his choice, ‘Portrait of Thomas William Coke, Esq. (1752–1842) inspecting some of his South Down sheep with Mr Walton and the Holkham shepherds’ by Thomas Weaver
‘I’m a sheepo-phile, so every time I catch sight of Weaver’s painting — I…
