Charlotte Sharpe was baptised at
St Phillip's church in Birmingham on the 2 July 1793. Her parents were Sussanna (born Fairhead?) and the engraver
William Sharpe. She had three younger sisters,
Eliza Sharpe (1798-1874),
Louisa Sharpe and
Mary Anne Sharpe (1802-1867) who all became artists. The parents allowed all of their daughters to travel to the continent to inspect galleries in France and Germany and each of the daughters was taught to engrave. William and Sussanna moved the Sharpe family to London in 1816. Mary Ann Sharpe lived with her sister Eliza and she exhibited in Manchester and Liverpool. Charlotte and Mary Ann each exhibited nineteen paintings exhibited at the
Royal Academy. Charlotte married Captain Best Morris and they had a daughter Charlotte B.Morris who was also an artist. in 1867. Mary Ann was known as "a gentle, refined, retiring lady...beloved by all who knew her, talented and industrious." ==References==