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Creator:
Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
Title:

A Woman and her Child, Probably Olive Sharpe (née Cartwright) and her son John [2024, YCBA]

Former Title(s):

Mrs. Sharpe and Her Child

Mrs. Sharpe and Child

Date:
1731
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 40 inches (127 x 101.6 cm), Frame: 57 1/2 × 47 3/4 × 4 inches (146.1 × 121.3 × 10.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed lower left, in red (later): "Mrs. Sharpe. and child. | postea Mrs. Douglas. | Highmore, 1731."

Signed and dated, lower left: "Jos. Highmore pinx: 1731."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.339
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1981.25.339FR
Subject Terms:
baby | branch | child | coral | parrot | portrait | rattle | ribbon | toy | whistle | woman
Associated People:
Sharpe, John (born 1730–died ca. 1731), son of Olive Sharpe (née Cartwright, died 1760) and John Sharpe (died 1756)
Sharpe, Olive (née Cartwright, died 1760), wife of John Sharpe (died 1756), Solicitor to the Treasury
Access:
Not on view
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:830
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Created by Joseph Highmore (1692-1780), the artist, possibly for John Sharpe (d. 1756) of East Barnet, Hertfordshire and Lincoln’s Inn, London, and his wife, the sitter, Olive Sharpe (née Cartwright, d. 1760); by descent to their son Fane William Sharpe (1728-1771) of St George's, Bloomsbury, London; by descent to his daughter Mary Beauvoir (née Sharpe, later Mrs. Andrew Douglas, 1759-1807); by descent to her husband Rev. Osmund Beauvoir (1722-1789); by descent to to his daughter Elizabeth (née Beauvoir, 1755-1829) and her husband William Hammond (1751-1821) of St Alban’s Court, Nonnington, Kent; by descent to his son William Osmund Hammond (1790-1863); by descent to his son William Oxenden Hammond (1817-1903) of St. Albans Court, Nonington, Kent; by descent to his nephew Egerton Hammond (1863-1923), St. Alban’s Court, Nonington, Kent; by descent to his widow Selina Hammond (née Barrington, 1871-1967), St. Alban’s Court, Nonington, Kent; purchased by Appleby Bros. Ltd at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, February 3, 1961 (lot 5, ‘Portrait of Mrs. Sharpe’ by Joseph Highmore‘), in “Pictures of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries the Property of Mrs. Egerton Hammond and Others” [1] [a]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999) [b]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT 1981.

Notes:
[1] The auction catalog is inscribed with the name ‘Appleby’ next to entry no. 5, ‘Portrait of Mrs. Sharpe.’

Citations:
[a] Christie, Manson & Woods, “Pictures of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries the Property of Mrs. Egerton Hammond and Others”, February 3, 1961, London. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1146428168

[b] Alison Shepherd Lewis, “Joseph Highmore, 1692-1780 (An Eighteenth Century English Portrait Painter)” PhD Diss. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1975, p. 493 https://search.library.yale.edu/catalog/191283?block=Books

Basic Instincts (The Foundling Museum, 2017-09-29 - 2018-01-07) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

"Brilliant Effects" [ Jewels ] (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-07-10 - 2004-01-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

David Bindman, Hogarth, Thames & Hudson, p. 149, no. 113, , NJ18.H67 B56 2021 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Naomi Clifford, Basic Instincts, The art of Joseph Highmore at the Foundling Museum, https://www.naomiclifford.com/basic-instincts-the-art-of-joseph-highmore-at-the-foundling-museum/ , Love, Life and Death in the Georgian Era, January 11, 2018, Available Online

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 116-117, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 31, ND466 G67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Alison Shepherd Lewis, Joseph Highmore, 1692-1780 : An eighteenth century English portrait painter [PhD dissertation, Harvard University], University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, 1976, pp. 81, 493, 776, no. 157, fig. 109, NJ18 .H4888 L48 1976A (YCBA) [YCBA]

Warren Mild, Joseph Highmore of Holborn Row, Phyllis Mild, Pennsylvania, 1990, p. 166, NJ18 .H4888 M55 1990 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Marcia R. Pointon, "Women and their jewels", [IN] Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 , Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2007, pp. 12-3, fig. 1, HQ1587 .W627 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Kate Retford, The art of domestic life, family portraiture in eighteenth-century England , Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2006, pp. 85-86, fig. 59, ND1313.4 .R48 2006 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts Love, Passion and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, p. 114, fig. 97, NJ18.H4888 R53 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Roy C. Strong, The British portrait, 1660-1960, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1991, pp.153, 161, pl. 145, ND1314 B743 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The Mere relation of the sufferings of others, Highmore, history painting and the Foundling Hospital , Art History, vol. 35, no. 3, June 2012, pp. 546-48, frnt cov&fig.16, N1 A75 v. 35:3 (YCBA) Also available online (ORBIS) [YCBA]


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