Spanish Realist/Impressionist Painter, 1863-1923 Related Paintings of Joaquin Sorolla :. | Castilla | Sevilla Palace | art dealer Jacques Seligmann | Sierra Nevada | Childs Siesta | Related Artists:
George Hardy(1822-1909) was an English genre painter, a member of the Cranbrook Colony and eldest brother to Frederick Daniel Hardy.
Hardy was born in Brighton in Sussex the first son (of 8 children) of George Hardy (b. 1796 in London), a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor. His mother was Sarah Lloyd (b. 1804).
Hardy became an oil painter of light-hearted genre subjects and moved to the artists' colony in Cranbrook in Kent. He married Ellen Hutton in May 1862 and the couple had 3 children.
Hardy died in Eastbourne in 1909.
Moses, Grandma1948
Oil on pressed wood.
Samuel J.Reader1853-1914
