William Sharp

Admiral Robert Blake, 1599 - 1657

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About this artwork

Artist:: William Sharp (1749 - 1824) English

Title:: Admiral Robert Blake, 1599 - 1657

Date:: 1799

Materials:: Line engraving on paper

Measurements:: overall: 16.50 x 10.20 cm

Object type:: Work on paper

Credit line:: Bequeathed by William Finlay Watson 1886

Accession number:: EP II 252.8

Gallery:: Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Print Room)
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Depicted:: Admiral Robert Blake

William Sharp

Sharp was apprenticed to the engraver, Barak Longmate, before becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools in 1771. After beginning his career as a writing engraver, Sharp progressed to create larger plates such as his notable engraving of ‘Alfred the Great Dividing his Loaf with the Pilgrim’…

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