Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Dorothea Sharp was born in Dartford in England. She studied at Regent Street Polytechnic school in London under Sir David Murray and en plein air painter George Clausen, before going on to study in Paris. The latter greatly influenced her handling of subjects and colour in impressionist fashion such as her handling of light. Upon her return to London, she became actively involved in the Society of Women Artists in London, exhibiting with them from 1902 on, and at one point became the group’s vice-president.
Sharp became strongly associated with St Ives in the 1920s, visiting in the summers and immersing herself in the subject matter she became renowned for, joyful images of children, often at the beach. She took one of the Porthmeor studios which she retained over many years and later moved to. Her training and practice as a plein air painter and her absorption of the impressionists’ use of colour and light brought freshness and spontaneity to her images of children. In 1928 Sharp was elected an honorary member of the St Ives Society of Artists, and in the late 1930s she settled in the colony for several years. Deeply immersed in artistic life there, she showed with such well-known artists as Laura Knight, Alfred Munnings and Stanhope Forbes. For several years she managed Lanham Galleries in St Ives, which showcased the work of Newlyn and St Ives School painters. In the mid-1940s Sharp returned permanently to her Blomfield Road studio in London, where she remained until her death in 1955. Sharp exhibited widely during her lifetime from the Royal Academy through to the Royal Society of British Artists to which she was elected in 1907.
Her works can be found in museums across the UK such as the Russell Coates Museum in Bournemouth, The National Museum Wales in Cardiff, and the Manchester Art Gallery.
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The Artist magazine, August 1931, Vol. 1 No. 6, Illustrated on page 224 (A copy of this magazine will be given to the buyer of this work).
