printer for a time), and millennialist prophet Richard Brothers, engraving the latter as "Prince of the Hebrews". After Brothers' incarceration in an insane asylum in Islington, Sharp became an adherent of prophetess Joanna Southcott, whom he brought from Exeter to London and kept at his own expense for a considerable time; he made a portrait drawing of her which he engraved. Despite her apparently premature death, he never lost faith in her divine mission or the possibility that she would reappear, and wrote a book in her defence: "An answer to the world etc." (London, 1806). References Further reading Cunningham, George Godfrey. Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, volume 8 (Glasgow, A. Fullarton & Co., 1838) p. 277. Baker, William Spohn. William Sharp, engraver (Philadelphia, Gebbie & Barrie, 1875). External links National Portrait Gallery William Sharp, Thomas Paine, a print after a painting by George Romney (British Museum) Obituary of William Sharp (The New Monthly Magazine, 1 Sep 1824) 1749 births 1824 deaths English engravers