Artist
Charles William Sharpe
Charles William Sharpe is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Charles Sharpe loved a good crowd—he sketched them on the sly, turning nosy commuters and gossiping neighbors into tiny, laughing characters in his prints. In *The Smile* (1846), his needle stabs the moment a stranger’s polite grin cracks into real delight, the way light catches the corner of an eye. Look at the woman’s hand half-raised to her mouth; that’s the whole secret—how we all betray ourselves in our smallest motions.
Works by Charles William Sharpe
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.