Rolina Sharples, painter, lived here, with her mother Ellen (also an artist). Born in Bath, in 1793, and spending her early childhood in America, Sharples returned to England in 1811 with her mother and brother after the death of her father.  Rolinda was one of the first female British artists to tackle multi-figure compositions. Her group paintings are as meticulous in detail as the small portraits of her early career, and today her scenes of Regency Bristol are considered to be accurate social records of the period. Her major paintings include The Cloak Room, Clifton Assembly Rooms; Racing on the Downs; Rownham Ferry with Portraits; The Stoppage of the Bank; and The Trial of Colonel Brereton after the Bristol Riots of 1831. She also painted smaller, more intimate studies from nature - of shells, or a mouse. Her paintings were exhibited at Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and Carlisle. Many of her paintings, including the portrait of her mother, Mrs Ellen Sharples (1769–1849), 1814, are on display at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.