 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.Sharp died in 1810 and was buried at All Saints' Church, Fulham, as "William Sharp, Esq., late of Fulham House, in this parish, who died March 17, 1810, aged 81", with his sister Elizabeth Prouse, "late of Wicken Park, Northamptonshire, who died Feb. 23, 1810, aged 77".The epitaph on their shared tomb reads 

The allusion is to the deaths of Jonathan and Saul