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Alfred (Alford) Usher Soord (1868-1915) was a British painter whose most famous work is the painting The Parable of the Lost Sheep, which depicts a sheep stuck in the middle of a steep cliff and a shepherd dangling dangerously over the edge, risking his own life to save it.

Soord was born in Sunderland on September 1, 1868, but grew up in York at 1 St Martins Crescent. For several years Soord studied part-time at the York School of Art.

Several of Soord's works were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, including "Falls on the Conway" (1893), "The Golden Hour (1894), "Irish Fish-Girl" (1894), "Madame De X" (1897) . ), "Portrait of a Lady" (1898), "Wastwater, Cumberland" (1898) and "Portrait of Edward Wilson" (1910).
Soord's most famous painting, "Lost Sheep," was also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898. By 1916, more than 300,000 pieces had been sold in England and the United States; the work remains extremely popular more than a century after its creation. Soord also worked as a magazine illustrator. Examples of his illustrations titled "What do you think of this letter?", "It doesn't even have a watermark", "The Boy Cried", and "I Looked" seem to illustrate a story in The Harmsworth Magazine from 1900.
Soord's notable paintings are: Falls on the Conway, 1893 The Irish Fishwife, 1894 The Golden Hour, 1894 Madame De X, 1897 Portrait of a Lady, 1898