George Scharf

Sir George Scharf (junior ) (* December 16, 1820 in London, † April 19, 1895 ) was a British painter and writer on art. He was the son of Bavarian miniature painter George Sharp, who settled in 1816 in London.

The son of German-born parents came in 1838 into the Royal Academy of Arts and gave the firstfruits work a collection of etchings entitled Scenic effects, which should serve as illustrations for the 1838 and 1839 organized by William Charles Macready Neuaufführungen of Shakespeare and other classical pieces. In 1840 he made ​​a trip through Italy and accompanied Sir Fellows to Asia Minor, which he once visited as a draftsman in 1843 by the Government then the sent expedition.

A large number of his Lycian landscapes and sculptures displayed sketches are on display in the British Museum. He also published the book with Fellows Lycia, Caria, Lydia, illustrated and Described (1847, Vol 1). After his return he devoted himself mainly to oil painting as well as the books Illustration: Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Austen Henry Layard's Nineveh, John Keats ' Poems, among others He also wrote a History of the characteristics of Greek art ( as an introduction to Wordsworth's Greece, 3. edition 1859), On the principal portraits of Shakespeare ( 1864), valuable catalogs of London art collections, exhibition reports, etc. in 1875 he was appointed curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London.