Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

All George Hardy 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z


ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
93877  
The Reading Lesson, George Hardy
 
 The Reading Lesson   Oil on Panel - 38 x 33.5 cm. Date 1889(1889) cjr

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.



USA Wholesale Oil Paintings, Stretcher Bars, Picture Frames & Beveled Mirrors