James Sharples, Alexander Hamilton

James Sharples

British · 1751–1811 · Painter, Printmaker

James Sharples was an English portrait painter and pastelist, who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779. (Wikipedia)

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4auction results2014–2025years recorded75%sold (3)$5.5kSign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Portrait of George WashingtonBrunk Auctions · $210,000≈ £157,009≈ €180,925Sign up to see
  2. A Pair of Portraits: A Man and  A WomanBrunk Auctions · $5,500≈ £3,889≈ €4,455Sign up to see
  3. A Pair of Portraits: A Man and A WomanBrunk Auctions · $3,000≈ £2,304≈ €2,761Sign up to see

James Sharples’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

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Average price
median $5.5kfree account
High
auction record in database
Lots sold
3
of 4 offered · 2014–2025
Sell-through
75%
sold ÷ offered

Price trend

$1k$10k$100k20252024-10-17 · $3,0002025-10-21 · $210,000
Each dot is a sold lot (price realized incl. premium where published, converted to USD at the sale-date rate; log scale). Dashed line: yearly median.

7 lot(s) catalogued with a qualifier (e.g. “attributed to”, “after”, “circle of”) are listed in the results but excluded from these statistics.

By medium

MediumOfferedSoldSell-throughAverageMedianHigh
Works on paper4375%$72.8kSign up$5.5kSign up$210kSign up
Watercolor100%—Sign up—Sign up—
Pastel33100%$72.8kSign up$5.5kSign up$210kSign up

Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.

By year

YearOfferedSoldMedian
202511$210kSign up
202411$3kSign up
201811$5.5kSign up
201410—Sign up

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