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SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 811 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824) , English line-engraver, was born at London on the 29th of January 1749. He was originally apprenticed to what is called a
bright
  engraver, and practised as a writing engraver, but gradually became inspired by the higher branches of the engraver's art. Among his earlier plates are some illustrations, after Stothard, for the Novelists' Magazine. He engraved the " Doctors Disputing on the Immaculateness of the Virgin " and the " Ecce Homo " of Guido Reni, the ";St
Cecilia
 " of Domenichino, the " Virgin and Child" of Dolci, and the portrait of John Hunter of Sir Joshua Reynolds. His style of en-graving is thoroughly masterly and
original
 , excellent in its play of line and rendering of half-tints and of " colour." He died at
Chiswick
  on the 25th of July 1824. In his youth, owing to his hotly expressed adherence to the politics of Paine and Horne Tooke, he was examined by the privy council on a charge of treason. Mesmer and Brothers found in
Sharp
  a stanch believer and for long he maintained
Joanna
  Southcott at his own expense. As an engraver he achieved a European reputation, and at the, time of his death he enjoyed the honour of being a member of the Imperial
Academy
  of Vienna and of the Royal
Academy
  of
Munich
 .


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