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See also:SCHARF, See also:SIR See also:GEORGE (182o—1895) , See also:British See also:art critic, was See also:born in See also:London on the 16th of See also:December 1820, the son of George Scharf, a Bavarian See also:miniature painter who settled in See also:England in 1816 and died in 186o. He studied in the See also:schools of the Royal See also:Academy. In 1840 he accompanied Sir See also:Charles See also:Fellows to See also:Asia See also:Minor, and in 1843 acted as draughtsman to a See also:government expedition to the same See also:country. After his return he devoted himself with See also:great See also:industry and success to the See also:illustration of books See also:relating to art and antiquity, of which the best known are See also:Macaulay's See also:Lays of See also:Ancient See also:Rome (1847); See also:Milman's See also:Horace, (1849); Kugler's Handbook of See also:Italian See also:Painting (1851); and Dr See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's classical dictionaries. He also engaged largely in lecturing and teaching, and took See also:part in the formation of the See also:Greek, See also:Roman and Pompeian courts at the Crystal See also:Palace. He acted as art secretary to the great See also:Manchester Art Treasures See also:Exhibition of 1857, and in that See also:year was appcinted secretary and director to the newly founded See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery. The See also:remainder of his See also:life was given to the care of that institution. Scharf acquired an unrivalled knowledge of all matters relating to historic See also:portraiture, and was the author of many learned essays on the subject. In 1885, in recognition of his services to the Portrait Gallery, he was made C.B., and on his resignation, See also:early in 1895, K.C.B. and a trustee of the Gallery. He died on the loth of See also:April of the same year.
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