Ellen Sharples
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.
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“The country needs the political work of women to-day as much as it has ever needed woman in any other work at any other time.”
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