James Sharples Pastel Portrait Circa.1800 Downman Spanish School late 18th

Spanish School late 18th

Cynric Lloyd and secondly Lt Col

Century gilt gesso studio frame

Century Delftware blue and white charger painted with an oriental figure holding a small animal within a fenced garden

7 by 43 cms

James Sharples Pastel Portrait Circa.1800 Downman Spanish School late 18thJames Sharples (1752 1811). Pastel portrait of a Gentleman wearing a white stock and blue coat. Circa. 1800. Very slight worm holing upper right to no real detriment. 20 by 25. 5 cms. Sharples was an English portrait painter and pastelist, who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779. The head of a family of successful portrait artists, including his third wife Ellen. He had four children: George by his first