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    Sir George Scharf KCB (16 December 1820 – 19 April 1895) was a British art critic, illustrator, and director of the National Portrait Gallery. Scharf was...
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    George Johann Scharf (1788–1860) was a water color painter, draughtsman and lithographer, and father of Sir George Scharf and Henry Scharf. He exhibited...
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  • Look up scharf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The surnames Scharf, Schärf, Schaerff, Sharf, as well as similar spellings of these names, usually have...
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    Charles W. Scharf (born April 24, 1965) is an American investment banker and business executive who is the chief executive officer and president of Wells...
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    at the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester in 1857, the curator George Scharf wrote: "The whole picture, notwithstanding the boldness of the attitudes...
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    Both the architect, Ewan Christian, and the gallery's first director, George Scharf, died shortly before the new building was completed. The gallery opened...
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    archive.org full text at Poets' Corner full text (with illustrations by George Scharf) at hathitrust.org The Lays of Ancient Rome public domain audiobook...
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  • Henry Scharf (1822–1887) was an illustrator, Shakespearean actor, and a professor of elocution. He was the son of illustrator George Johann Scharf and brother...
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    original source used by Droeshout himself. The 19th-century scholar George Scharf argued on the basis of the inconsistencies in the lights and shadows...
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    children, his peerage became extinct on his death. Macaulay's nephew, Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, wrote the "Life and Letters" of his uncle. His great-nephew...
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