George Johann Scharf

George Johann Scharf
Drawing of South American fossil skull of toxodon platensis for Charles Darwin, 1838
Born1788
Bavaria
Died1860
London
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)illustrator, water colour painter, draughtsman, and lithographer.

George Johann Scharf (1788–1860) was a water color painter, draughtsman and lithographer, and father of Sir George Scharf and Henry Scharf. He exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy from 1817 to 1850, and was a member of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours.

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