George Hardy

Visual Artist

1822 – 1909

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Who was George Hardy?

George Hardy 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 George Hardy, a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor. His mother was Sarah Lloyd.

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.

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Born
1822
London
Died
1909

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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