Frederick Daniel Hardy. Frederick Daniel Hardy was an English genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony of artists.
Frederick Daniel Hardy was born at Windsor in Berkshire, the third of eight children of George Hardy and his wife Sarah. George Hardy was a horn player in the Private Band of Music of the Royal Households of George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria.
Frederick's father was also an amateur artist, taught by James Duffield Harding and Edmund Bristow. F.D.
Hardy's ancestors were from Horsforth in Yorkshire; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook, was his second cousin. Frederick enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music, Hanover Square, at the age of seventeen.
He studied for about three years, but finally abandoned music to become an artist like his elder brother George Hardy. Hardy soon became a skilful painter of cottage interiors, but was continually improving his figure painting throughout the 1850s. Christopher Wood, writer on Victorian Art, commented on one of Hardy's earliest paintings, Cottage Fireside: Some of his early works of this kind are beautifully observed, and quite unsentimental, omitting the usual children, pets and other familiar props of the cottage idyll painters. The old kitchen. is delineated as dispassionately as a Dutch seventeenth century kitchen by Ostade or Brekelenkamp. In 1851 Hardy had his first two pictures accepted for exhibition at the Ro
Frederick Daniel Hardy was born at Windsor in Berkshire, the third of eight children of George Hardy and his wife Sarah. George Hardy was a horn player in the Private Band of Music of the Royal Households of George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria.
Frederick's father was also an amateur artist, taught by James Duffield Harding and Edmund Bristow. F.D.
Hardy's ancestors were from Horsforth in Yorkshire; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook, was his second cousin. Frederick enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music, Hanover Square, at the age of seventeen.
He studied for about three years, but finally abandoned music to become an artist like his elder brother George Hardy. Hardy soon became a skilful painter of cottage interiors, but was continually improving his figure painting throughout the 1850s. Christopher Wood, writer on Victorian Art, commented on one of Hardy's earliest paintings, Cottage Fireside: Some of his early works of this kind are beautifully observed, and quite unsentimental, omitting the usual children, pets and other familiar props of the cottage idyll painters. The old kitchen. is delineated as dispassionately as a Dutch seventeenth century kitchen by Ostade or Brekelenkamp. In 1851 Hardy had his first two pictures accepted for exhibition at the Ro
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