James Mathieson Sharp was a Tasmanian professional photographer and dentist. Although his career as a photographer was quite short, he can be credited with contributing to the early development of photography in Tasmania. After a partnership with Walter Dickenson in 1855, Sharp joined with photographer and artist Frederick Frith, working out of a Collins Street. Hobart studio. Sharp and Firth created chromatype portraits (overpainted matt paper prints from glass collodion negatives) including many images of prominent Tasmanians. Sharp was also interested in landscape photography. His work included a five-part full-plate panoramic view of Hobart Town from the Domain. The panorama is one of the earliest surviving panoramas taken in any of the Australian colonies. The W L Crowther Library has a copy within the Abbott Album. Firth left the partnership in 1856, after which Sharp employed first Alfred Bock and then W P Dowling to undertake overpainting work. The 'Sharp & Co. Chromatype Gallery' closed in 1858 with Sharp turning his focus to dentistry. He continued for several years to have a side interest in stereoscopic landscape photography as well as giving lessons and selling equipment. The Abbott Album includes several of Sharps works from this time. Sharp married Alice Fleming (1844-1930) in Hobart on 31/08/1870.