'A man of ‘unflagging zeal and industry’: Sir George Scharf as an emerging professional within the nineteenth-century museum world

Between his appointment as first secretary (and later director) of the National Portrait Gallery in 1857 and his retirement, just a few weeks before his death in 1895, George Scharf worked tirelessly to build a collection of authentic portraits with which to articulate a narrative of British history...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth Heath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/heath.pdf