George Hardy. George Hardy was an English genre painter, a member of the Cranbrook Colony and eldest brother of the artist Frederick Daniel Hardy.
George Hardy was born at Brighton in Sussex, the eldest of eight children of George Hardy and his wife Sarah. George's father was a horn player in the Private Band of Music of the Royal Households of George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria.
His father was also an amateur artist, taught by James Duffield Harding and Edmund Bristow. George Hardy's ancestors were from Horsforth in Yorkshire; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook, was his second cousin.
George Hardy was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1841 on the recommendation of Thomas Webster who was a family friend and was related to Hardy's mother. Hardy's paintings of cottage interiors reflect the influence of Thomas Webster and Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century, as can be seen for example in The Leisure Hour.
During the 1850s George Hardy helped his younger brother Frederick Daniel, in particular to improve his painting of human figures. They collaborated on a few paintings. Hardy's travels in Normandy provided subjects for several paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy. La Soeur de Charite is a study of a fisherman's cottage in France. Hardy exhibited 41 paintings at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1892. After his marriage in May 1862 to Ellen Hutton
George Hardy was born at Brighton in Sussex, the eldest of eight children of George Hardy and his wife Sarah. George's father was a horn player in the Private Band of Music of the Royal Households of George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria.
His father was also an amateur artist, taught by James Duffield Harding and Edmund Bristow. George Hardy's ancestors were from Horsforth in Yorkshire; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook, was his second cousin.
George Hardy was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in 1841 on the recommendation of Thomas Webster who was a family friend and was related to Hardy's mother. Hardy's paintings of cottage interiors reflect the influence of Thomas Webster and Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century, as can be seen for example in The Leisure Hour.
During the 1850s George Hardy helped his younger brother Frederick Daniel, in particular to improve his painting of human figures. They collaborated on a few paintings. Hardy's travels in Normandy provided subjects for several paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy. La Soeur de Charite is a study of a fisherman's cottage in France. Hardy exhibited 41 paintings at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1892. After his marriage in May 1862 to Ellen Hutton
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