 He wears the red collar of a Windsor uniform (which he would have been entitled to wear as a member of the Royal Household) and is not holding the French horn he usually played, which rests near the piano.Some sources describe Sharp as "surgeon to King George III", but no contemporary sources have been found that confirm these claims.The painting, which has also been called "The Sharp Family on a Yacht on the River Thames", was inherited by Sharp's daughter Mary and thereafter by her Lloyd-Baker descendants of Hardwicke.