The enthralling story of an eighteenthcentury family and their extraordinary achievements. Four brothers three sisters. Brought up in a Northumberland rectory and in the close of Durham Cathedral the Sharps would achieve exalted positions at the heart of British society. In 1781 the celebrated painter Johan Zoffany put the final brush strokes on the luminous portrait that immortalised the siblings rise and their remarkable unity and passion for life. Ambitious freethinking and courageous the S Paperback softback