This newly completed bust portrait of William Wallace stands at around 20cm. high.

The main reference for this piece was the stained glass windom in St. Margaret's Chapel in Edinburgh Castle.

It is cast in resin bronze and mounted on a hardwood plinth.The final run of this piece will number 150 normally retailing at £99 each.

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Sir William Wallace

Son of minor nobleman Sir Malcolm Wallace, William Wallace was born in 1270 in Elerslie, Renfrew.

Initially educated at home by his mother he was then given schooling by the monks of Paisley Abbey. Though William Wallace could read and write he was probably more interested in activities such as horsemanship, hunting and swordmanship - sparring with his elder brother Sir Malcolm Wallace Jnr. and younger brother John Wallace (later to become one of his trusted comrade-in-arms).

After sporadic violence occured following the deposition of Scottish king, John De Balliol, Wallace and some 30 men burned Lanark and killed its English sherrif. Wallace organised an army of commoners and attacked the English garrisons between the rivers Forth and Tay. Heavily outnumbered Wallace gained an over whelming victory over Edward I English army at Stirling Bridge and the in the following October invaded northern England, sacking Northumberland and Cumberland. Wallace was knighted and proclaimed Guardian of Scotland.

After defeat at the Battle of Falkirk, Wallace reputedly left for France and thereafter acted as a solitary guerilla leader in Scotland and finally captured on August 5 1305, he was taken to London and condemned as a traitor to the king, even though he had never sworn allegiance to Edward.

William Wallace remains Scotlands greatest national hero.

(see also Shiel Arts other current William Wallace portrayal)