Sharpe, Henry D. Jr. (b. 1923)
Role: Vice Chancellor, Trustee, FellowDates: (1954 - present)
Portrait Location: Sayles Hall 108
Artist: Prosperi, Lucia and Warren ()
Portrait Date: 1996
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 54 1/2" high x 39 3/4" wide
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Brown Portrait Number: 252
Brown Historical Property Number: 2206
Henry Sharpe, Jr., a native of Providence and the son of former chancellor Henry Sharpe Senior (BP 151, 174), graduated from Brown in 1945. He became chairman of the board of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing, the precision metrology company founded by his grandfather and where he devoted more than fifty years. During his tenure the company expanded internationally. Sharpe has been an active player in both professional and civic organizations in Rhode Island throughout his career.
Sharpe's portrait was commissioned by President Vartan Gregorian in 1996 of Massachusetts-based portrait and landscape artists Lucia and Warren Prosperi. Sharpe is pictured in his former family home, now Rochambeau House on Brown campus.