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Ad Code: 4
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from Auction House Records.
Portrait of a lady, seated by a sewing table, holding a piece of lace
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Ellen Wallace Sharples (born 1769 – died 1849 in Wybunbury, Cheshire) was an English painter who 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.
Ellen Wallace was born in Bath or Birmingham into a Quaker family. She studied drawing with James Sharples in Bath, her only known art training, and married him in 1787. The couple had (showing 500 of 8812 characters). |
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