Dorothea Sharp ROI RBA (10 January 1873 – 17 December 1955)[1] was a British artist best known for her landscapes and naturalistic studies of children at play.

She began her training aged 21, when, after inheriting £100 from an uncle, she attended the Richmond art school run by C. E. Johnson RI.

[4] She went on to study at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where her work was admired by George Clausen and David Murray.

[1][2] Sharp exhibited at The Royal Academy from 1901 to 1948[2][4] and held her first one-woman show at the Connell Gallery in 1933; this was a great success[4] and she was described as 'one of England's greatest living woman painters' by Harold Sawkins, editor of The Artist.

[6] Sharp became a good friend to the Canadian Impressionist artist Helen McNicoll, and the two travelled together in France and Italy until the outbreak of the First World War.