“She sells seashells by the seashore.” Down to the beach with British artist Dorothea Sharp. Living from 1874 to 1955, she was best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.

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Paddlers/Girl with a shrimp net. Undated, purchased in 1937. British. Dorothea Sharp, painter (1874-1955). Signed DOROTHEA SHARP on the lower left. Image © estate of the artist. Collections of the Gallery Oldham. Photo credit Bridgeman Images. via Artuk.org https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/paddlers-90862
Low Tide. Undated, purchased from the purchased from the Southport Corporation Art Gallery in 1931. Dorothea Sharp, painter (1874-1955). Signed DOROTHEA SHARP on the lower left. Image © estate of the artist. Photo credit and © Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service. Collections of the Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service, via artuk.org. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/low-tide-90293
Children on the Seashore. Undated, by 1955. British. Dorothea Sharp, painter (1874-1955). Signed DOROTHEA SHARP on the lower left. Image © estate of the artist. Photo credit: Belfast City Hall. Collections of Belfast City Hall. via artuk.org. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/children-on-the-seashore-168111
Making Sandcastles. Undated, by 1955. Dorothea Sharp, painter (1874-1955). Signed DOROTHEA SHARP on the lower left. Image © estate of the artist. Photo credit and © Queens University, Belfast. Collections of the Queens University, Belfast, via artuk.org. http://www.artuk.org/artworks/making-sandcastles-169040

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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