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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.

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

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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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