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   Scharf
   George / Georg Johann
   G. J. S. ; George Scharf Sr. ;
   Elizabeth Hicks
   2 sons: actor and illustrator Henry Scharf (1822-1887) ; art critic, illustrator, director of National Portrait Gallery Sir George Scharf (1820-1895)
   1788 in Mainburg near Munich
   1860
   Westminster, London
   Bavarian miniature painter George Johann Scharf (1788–1860)
   
   Prof. Hauber; Paris & Antwerp ; Feiertagsschule in Munich
   United Kingdom
   Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855) ; Buckland: Geology Mineralogy (1838) ; Richard Owen: Brit. Fossil Reptiles ; Prof. Sedgwick ; Charles Darwin ; Thomas C. Eyton: Anatidae (1838) ; William Conybeare: Ichthyosaurus Plesiosaurus (1822) ; Falconer & Cautley (1846) ; Thomas Bell (1792-1880) & Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) ; William Buckland (1784-1845) ; Frederick Dixon (1799-1849) ; Hugh Falconer (1808-1865) & Proby Thomas Cautley (1802-1871) ; Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865) ; Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889) ; John Hunter (1728-1793) ; Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871) ; T. Webster: Skeleton of the presiosaurus dolichodeirus, Transactions of the Geological Society (2) 1 (1822) pl. XLVIII
   King Maximilian of Bavaria; Zoological & Geological Societies London; Royal College of Surgeons; New Society of Painters in Water Colours;
   ->Mary Anning ; Henry de la Beche's Duria Antiquior ; ->C. Hullmandel ; ->George Nibbs ; Josef Dinkel ; A. Gawan ; Lens Aldous ; J. Erxleben ; G. H. Ford ; lithographer Thomas Webster ; Hullmandel ; draughtsman ->T. Webster ; ->Conybeare ;
   anatomical, botanical, paleontological, zoological, ornithological watercolour painting, drawing & lithography
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toxodon-Schaedel.jpg ; http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IeHTta11dXM/Ty7tC7AkVEI/AAAAAAAABsw/re9kp_qOie0/s320/000.jpg ;
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Johann_Scharf ; British Museum Natural History ; www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82220754/ ;
   Nissen: Botanische Buchillustr. 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustr. 1969/78 ## 298, 652f., 1119, 1329, 1391, 1864, 2059, 2944f., 3035a, 3036, 3051, 4785 & 4788 ; Bryan's dict. V 1905: 33 ; Debus: 26 ; Sawyer 1971: 167 & 180 ; Langer 1978: 379 & 385f. ; Rudwick 1992: 43f. & 7 ; Chansigaud 2009: 132 ; Rice 2010: 259 ; DNB 50 1887: 410-1 ; Davidson 2008: 48-51, 55, 95 & 189 ; Klingender 1968/74: 84, 251 & fig. 13 ; Kury 2014: 154-5 ; Escardó 2022: 184f.
   Born in Bavaria, Germany, but settled in London since 1816. spec. on marine, miniature painting & theatre scene painting. Bryan: "first successful practitioner of lithography in England". G.S. worked also for: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (London 1791-1875) and Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (London 1833/35-1965).
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