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\"English Engraver\" William Sharp Hand Signed 2X4 Card:
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Up for sale "English Engraver" William Sharp  Hand Signed 2X4 Card.

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William Sharp (29 January 1749 – 25 July 1824), was

an English

engraver

and artist.  Sharp

was the son of a reputable gunsmith who lived at Haydon's Yard, Minories

in central London.

He was apprenticed to the bright-cut engraver and genealogist,

Barak

Longmate (1738–93), and after marriage, to a Frenchwoman, set

himself up as a writing engraver in Bartholomew Lane (off Threadneedle Street). His first notable work

was an engraving of "Hector", an old lion at the Tower of

London. Around 1782, he sold the shop and moved to Vauxhall,

intending to specialise in the higher branches (i.e. engraving for printing) of

the engraver's art. Among his earlier plates are some illustrations, after Stothard,

for the Novelists' Magazine. He also completed the plate of Benjamin West's

"Landing of Charles II" which William

Woollett had left unfinished at the time of his death, engraved some

of the illustrations by artists who travelled with Captain Cook

on his famous voyages, and J. H. Benwell's "Children in the

Wood".He finally settled at Chiswick

where he remained for the rest of his life. He engraved the "Doctors

Disputing on the Immaculateness of the Virgin" and "Ecce Homo"

(after Guido Reni);

"King Lear in the Storm" and "The Witch of Endor (after

Benjaimin West); "The sortie from Gibralter" (after John Trumbull);

the portrait of John Hunter and "The Holy Family

(after Joshua Reynolds); "St Cecilia" (after

Domenichino) and "Virgin and Child"

(after Dolci). Sharp's style of engraving was

original, the half-tints rich and full. He became an honorary member of the Imperial Academy in Vienna

and the Royal Academy in Munich. Sharp's portrait was painted by George Francis Joseph (1764–1846) and

engraved by Sharp himself, and a 3/4-length portrait was painted by James Lonsdale (illustrated). James Thomson (1788–1850) engraved another

portrait. Sharp died at Chiswick

on 25 July 1824, and was buried in the parish churchyard there.

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