George Henry Harlow London 1787-1819

Dr. Rowe, Newgate, Kent;
With Scott & Fowles, New York;
With Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York;
From whom acquired by a member of the present family.

The talented Sharpe sisters were two of four daughters of the Birmingham engraver William Sharpe, all of whom became artists.  Louisa was generally considered to be the most gifted.  She exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy from 1817 until 1829 when she was elected a member of the Old Watercolour Society.  She began as a miniature painter but later moved to costume subjects, genre scenes and illustrations to poets, many of the latter being engraved in the 'Keepsake' and 'Forget-me-not' annuals.  In 1834 she married Professor Seyffarth and settled with him in Dresden.  Her younger sister Eliza was also elected to the Old Watercolour Society in 1829.  She also began her career as a miniaturist and later in life concentrated on copying pictures at the South Kensington Museum.  Both sisters continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy.