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3 unusual facts about Rolinda Sharples


Rolinda Sharples

Rolinda Sharples was born into a family of artists headed by James Sharples, her father, and Ellen Sharples, her mother.

For the last eight years of her life she lived with her mother in Hotwells, and died of breast cancer in 1838.

Her major paintings include The Cloak Room, Clifton Assembly Rooms; Racing on the Downs; Rownham Ferry with Portraits; The Stoppage of the Bank; and The Trial of Colonel Brereton after the Bristol Riots of 1831.



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