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 Bristol Fine Arts Academy in 1844 with a substantial gift.
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
James Sharples (portrait painter)
James Sharples was an English portrait painter and pastelist, who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779.
George Washington depicted on a postage stamp in 1895, based on an engraving taken from Sharples' portrait of him in 1741
A portrait of Rufus Putnam painted in 1796 and 1777 and now in the collection of Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia
Carlos Martínez de Irujo y Tacón, Pastel attributed to James Sharples, Sr.
Portraits of a man and a woman, by James Sharples