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SCHARF, SIR GEORGE (182o1895)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 313 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAR-SCY
SCHARF, SIR GEORGE (182o1895) , British art critic, was born in London on the 16th of December 1820, the son of George Scharf, a Bavarian miniature painter who settled in England in 1816 and died in 186o. He studied in the schools of the Royal
Academy
 . In 1840 he accompanied Sir Charles Fellows to Asia
Minor
 , and in 1843 acted as draughtsman to a government expedition to the same country. After his return he devoted himself with
great
  industry and success to the
illustration
  of books relating to art and antiquity, of which the best known are Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome (1847); Milman's
Horace
 , (1849); Kugler's Handbook of Italian Painting (1851); and Dr
Smith
 's classical dictionaries. He also engaged largely in lecturing and teaching, and took part in the formation of the Greek, Roman and Pompeian courts at the Crystal Palace. He acted as art secretary to the
great
  Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857, and in that year was appcinted secretary and director to the newly founded National Portrait Gallery. The remainder of his life was given to the care of that institution. Scharf acquired an unrivalled knowledge of all matters relating to historic portraiture, and was the author of many learned essays on the subject. In 1885, in recognition of his services to the Portrait Gallery, he was made C.B., and on his resignation, early in 1895, K.C.B. and a trustee of the Gallery. He died on the loth of April of the same year.


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