Ellen Wallace Sharples was an English painter specialized in portraits in pastel and in watercolor miniatures on ivory. She exhibited five miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1807, and founded the Bris
Portrait of Sharples, painted by her daughter, Rolinda, c. 1814.
Dorothea Hart, attributed to James Sharples, possibly Ellen Sharples, 1809, British
George Washington, 1796–1797, Ellen Sharples
An 1816 chalk drawing of Charles Darwin at age six with his sister Catherine, by Ellen Sharples
Rolinda Sharples was an English painter who specialised in portraits and genre paintings in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Society of British Artists, where she became an honorary
Ellen Sharples
…her only known art training, and married him in 1787. The couple had two children, both of whom were also painters: James Sharples, Jr. (b. 1788) and Rolinda Sharples (b. 1793). James, who had been widowed twice before, had two sons from his previous marriages, George, with his first wife, and Felix (b. 1786 and also…
The Artist and her Mother. Self-portrait by Rolinda Sharples, with her mother, Ellen, in the background, 1816
The Cloakroom, Clifton Assembly Rooms, 1818
The Stoppage of the Bank, c. 1825