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Interviewed years later for an oral history project, Jackson commented that Sharpington tended to charge prices that were too low: "he just didn't have a feel for what it ought to be ... he realised that the best thing to do was to give me the job and I was to give him the cut so I would get straight
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for schools and vaccination clinics (even as mundane as a "No Parking" sign to go at the entrance to a North London park). As a result, much of it no longer exists: by 1989 Dr. John Nash commented that "much of the beautiful work done by Sharpington's workshop during the Fifties is now gone". (Giving
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Surrey County Council's website on the memorial credits Sharpington among other artists, but does not state which work he did. The memorial was dedicated in 1921, before Sharpington had set up his own practice, but rededicated in 1951 after the Second World War. According to Marian Mollett of the
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However, photographs exist of some of his lost work and other examples survive which were made of stone or kept indoors in protected locations such as government buildings and churches. The Diocese of Southwark archives list correspondence with him on various projects.
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Sharpington preferred the term "lettering artist" to describe his work, rather than "sign writing", feeling that the term did not do lettering work due credit, something both Jackson and DuVivier independently remembered about him when interviewed
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commented that Sharpington "specializes in painted lettering of fine quality".) In addition, tastes changed and the practice of signwriting declined after his career, meaning his work was often not replaced with similar designs.
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His Collis Browne memorial uses a capital-form q in lower-case italic, a style used in renaissance calligraphy and by some twentieth-century Arts and Crafts artists, it is used for example in Jamie Smith's English Engravers
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and the design of monuments. In the view of John Nash and Gerald Fleuss, his workshop "produced, from the to the , some of the most distinguished public lettering in England".
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They are...commemorated in a delightful tablet on the north wall of the same church, designed by W. H. Sharpington and subscribed for by friends and admirers in America.
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The Light of Other Days: a selection of monuments, mausoleums and memorials in Church of Ireland churches and graveyards and those whom they commemorate
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which had quickly become a standard for prestigious lettering like monuments and memorials. Sharpington also worked in this style, with use of
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Many sign painters are now retired...others have made the transition to easier, cheaper...vinyl lettering or large-scale digital printing.
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Richmond Local History Society the entire monument in its current form is his work as it was replaced in 1955.
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Shaw, John (2007). "Percy John Delf Smith RDI 1882–1948: Calligrapher, Lettering Artist and Craftsman".
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himself, but generally drew out art for others to cut into stone. He taught and had his workshop at the
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in a lodge with Oliver, and later with Jackson. He died in 1973 and was commemorated with a plaque at
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The memorial was designed by Mr. Louis de Soissons...with lettering by Mr. W. H. Sharpington
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survives but the lettering has been replaced; it is not the same as in Burnett's photograph.
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Much of Sharpington's artwork was painted or made of wood and ephemeral, like signs for
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Nash, John R. (1989). "English Brush Lettering: The Workshop of William Sharpington".
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from about 1920 to 1935. He then set up his own practice which continued through the
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Survey of London: Volume 40, the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings)
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A signboard Lubell reproduces that Sharpington created for a toll road at
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British Museum staff war memorial, Second World War section (detail)
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rendering. The structures are strongly reminiscent of the original
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and started his career working as an assistant in the workshop of
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Lubell, Stephen (2010). "William Sharpington: a man of letters".
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Donald Jackson interviewed by Hawksmoor Hughes – British Library
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Richmond History, Journal of the Richmond Local History Society
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Nash, John R. (2001b). "Kenneth Breese, Lettering Craftsman".
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Sharpington designed lettering art such as memorials and
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Index

William Sharington
Picture of a man wearing a bowler hat
the Adelphi
Kennington
Downe
Lettering artist
City and Guilds of London Art School
lettering artist
sign painting

John Collis Browne
Ramsgate
City and Guilds of London Art School
Percy Delf Smith
post-war period
letterpress
vinyl sign cutters
computer fonts
Edward Johnston
Arts and Crafts movement
style of fine lettering
Roman square capitals
italics
swashes
Trajan
Jensen
Venetian
Crafts Study Centre
painted signs
City and Guilds of London Art School

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