Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue
Granville Sharp (1735-1813), Scholar and philanthropist
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Philanthropist, 9th son of Thomas Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland; served in the ordnance department 1758-76; a campaigner for civil rights, chairman of the society for the abolition of slavery 1787; wrote Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament 1798, founded the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1804 and latterly believed Napoleon to be the ‘Little Horn’ mentioned in the Book of Daniel.
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.
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.