ARTIST: Thomas Bush Hardy (British, 1842 - 1897)
NAME: In Distress
YEAR: 1872
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Some foxing. Some age toning.
SIGHT SIZE: 17 x 27 inches / 43 x 68 cm
MAT SIZE: 23 x 33 inches / 58 x 83 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Thomas Bush Hardy was a British marine painter and watercolourist.Hardy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 3 May 1842. As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy.In 1884 Hardy was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He exhibited with the Society and also at the Royal Academy. His paintings feature coastal scenes in England and the Netherlands, the French Channel ports and the Venetian Lagoon.He died on 15 December 1897 in Maida Vale, London and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. His grave has no headstone or marker.Hardy had nine children. His son Dudley Hardy was a painter, illustrator and poster designer. His daughter Dorothy received an MBE after working as a nurse in the First World War.