Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Granville Sharp (1735-1813), Scholar and philanthropist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
1779-81
Painting by Johann Zoffany, The Sharp Family on the Thames at Fulham, with Granville Sharp, seated centre left, holding two flageolets. Private collection on loan to the NPG (L 169; illus. M. Webster, Johan Zoffany, exhibition catalogue, NPG 1977, no.87). Exhibited RA 1781 (85). From the 1750s Sharp’s musical brothers and sisters performed fortnightly as an orchestra, their water concerts on the Thames becoming celebrated.
1790
Painting by Mather Brown, three-quarter length seated, wearing a fur-trimmed coat. Private collection (D. Evans, Mather Brown: an early American artist in England, 1982, no.165). Exhibited RA 1790 (201); Second special exhibition of National Portraits (William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867 (798) lent T. B. L. Baker. A second portrait, described as Sharp by Brown, a half-length figure in the uniform of the Putney Volunteers, sold Christie’s, 8 May 1931, lot 135.
1794
Drawing by George Dance, see NPG 1158.
1805
Painting by L. F. Abbott, half length, his left arm resting on four books, a paper in his left hand, engraved C. Turner 1805.
1808
Wax profile by Catherine Andras. Sotheby’s, 30 November 1964, lot 81. Exhibited RA 1809 (667). Engraved W. Worthington 1810. Plaster in the Scottish NPG (PG 455).
1816
Monument by Francis Chantrey, incorporating a profile head. Westminster Abbey, commissioned by the African Institution, which Sharp had helped to found in 1807 (A. Yarrington, I. D. Lieberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, RA, at the Royal Academy, 1809-1941', Wal. Soc., 1994, no.39a). A related bust-length silhouette pub. T. Stackhouse.
1818
Silhouette by Longmate, bust length, engraved 1818 (Gentleman's Magazine; illus. Connoisseur, LXXVII, 1927, p 10).
1826
Marble bust by Francis Chantrey. Destroyed 1940, formerly Guildhall, London; commissioned by the City of London (A. Yarrington, I. D. Lieberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, RA, at the Royal Academy, 1809-1941', Wal. Soc., 1994, no.183a). Engraved S. Cousins 1827. Plaster in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1992, III, no.757).
Doubtful Portraits
Painting by an unidentified artist, half length to right with his own dark hair, bearing the date 1816, offered to the NPG in 1937 as Granville Sharp.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
Painting by Johann Zoffany, The Sharp Family on the Thames at Fulham, with Granville Sharp, seated centre left, holding two flageolets. Private collection on loan to the NPG (L 169; illus. M. Webster, Johan Zoffany, exhibition catalogue, NPG 1977, no.87). Exhibited RA 1781 (85). From the 1750s Sharp’s musical brothers and sisters performed fortnightly as an orchestra, their water concerts on the Thames becoming celebrated.
1790
Painting by Mather Brown, three-quarter length seated, wearing a fur-trimmed coat. Private collection (D. Evans, Mather Brown: an early American artist in England, 1982, no.165). Exhibited RA 1790 (201); Second special exhibition of National Portraits (William and Mary to MDCCC), South Kensington, 1867 (798) lent T. B. L. Baker. A second portrait, described as Sharp by Brown, a half-length figure in the uniform of the Putney Volunteers, sold Christie’s, 8 May 1931, lot 135.
1794
Drawing by George Dance, see NPG 1158.
1805
Painting by L. F. Abbott, half length, his left arm resting on four books, a paper in his left hand, engraved C. Turner 1805.
1808
Wax profile by Catherine Andras. Sotheby’s, 30 November 1964, lot 81. Exhibited RA 1809 (667). Engraved W. Worthington 1810. Plaster in the Scottish NPG (PG 455).
1816
Monument by Francis Chantrey, incorporating a profile head. Westminster Abbey, commissioned by the African Institution, which Sharp had helped to found in 1807 (A. Yarrington, I. D. Lieberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, RA, at the Royal Academy, 1809-1941', Wal. Soc., 1994, no.39a). A related bust-length silhouette pub. T. Stackhouse.
1818
Silhouette by Longmate, bust length, engraved 1818 (Gentleman's Magazine; illus. Connoisseur, LXXVII, 1927, p 10).
1826
Marble bust by Francis Chantrey. Destroyed 1940, formerly Guildhall, London; commissioned by the City of London (A. Yarrington, I. D. Lieberman, A. Potts, M. Baker, 'An Edition of the Ledger of Sir Francis Chantrey, RA, at the Royal Academy, 1809-1941', Wal. Soc., 1994, no.183a). Engraved S. Cousins 1827. Plaster in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1992, III, no.757).
Doubtful Portraits
Painting by an unidentified artist, half length to right with his own dark hair, bearing the date 1816, offered to the NPG in 1937 as Granville Sharp.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.