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WILLIAM SHARP (1749-1824)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 811 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SHARP (1749-1824)  , See also:English See also:line-engraver, was See also:born at See also:London on the 29th of See also:January 1749 . He was originally apprenticed to what is called a See also:bright engraver, and practised as a See also:writing engraver, but gradually became inspired by the higher branches of the engraver's See also:art . Among his earlier plates are some illustrations, after See also:Stothard, for the Novelists' See also:Magazine . He engraved the " Doctors Disputing on the Immaculateness of the Virgin " and the " Ecce Homo " of Guido Reni, the ";St See also:Cecilia" of See also:Domenichino, the " Virgin and See also:Child" of See also:Dolci, and the portrait of See also:John See also:Hunter of See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds . His See also:style of en-graving is thoroughly masterly and See also:original, excellent in its See also:play of line and rendering of See also:half-tints and of " See also:colour." He died at See also:Chiswick on the 25th of See also:July 1824 . In his youth, owing to his hotly expressed adherence to the politics of See also:Paine and See also:Horne See also:Tooke, he was examined by the privy See also:council on a See also:charge of See also:treason . See also:Mesmer and See also:Brothers found in See also:Sharp a stanch believer and for See also:long he maintained See also:Joanna See also:Southcott at his own expense . As an engraver he achieved a See also:European reputation, and at the, See also:time of his See also:death he enjoyed the See also:honour of being a member of the Imperial See also:Academy of See also:Vienna and of the Royal Academy of See also:Munich .

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