Artist

James Sharples

Portrait of James Sharples
Portrait of James Sharples

British, 1751–1811

James Sharples was a British Romanticism artist. 8 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art. James Sharples was born in Lancashire.

James Sharples (1751 or 1752, in Lancashire – 26 February 1811, in New York City) was an English portrait painter and pastelist, who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779.

Collections represented

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