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Marcus Beilby
Marcus Beilby (born in 1951, Western Australia), is an Australian realist painter. Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant. He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, where he received a Diploma of Fine Arts (Painting) in 1975.
Beilby was the winner of the 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize for Australian Genre Painting. The winning painting, "Crutching the ewes" has been described as a homage to Tom Roberts' "Shearing the Rams"
fleece"] endorses wealth and the social order." The photorealist painter Marcus Beilby won the 1987 Sir John Sulman Prize with a painting that also depicts shearers at work, this time in a modern shed using machine shears with overhead gear. Beilby was consciously inspired by "Shearing the Rams" when creating his own updated version, and gave his work the name "Crutching the ewes" to differentiate it, despite the fact that it does not depict men crutching sheep but rather shearing them. 
The impact of "Shearing