THOMAS BUSH HARDY
R.B.A. (1842 – 1897)
“Coastal Shipping
at Anchor” IMAGE
Watercolour
heightened with bodycolour
218mm x 500mm.
Signed and inscribed “Langham Sketch”
T.B. Hardy was a marine
painter. He was born in Sheffield in
1842, and was the father of the artist Dudley Hardy.
He travelled in Holland, France and
Italy and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British
Artists, to which he was elected Member in 1884, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Royal
Institute, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Society of Painters
in Watercolours, Thomas Agnew and Sons Gallery, the Dowdeswell Galleries, the Fine Art Society, Grosvenor
Gallery, Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Suffolk
Street Galleries and Arthur Tooth and Sons Gallery.
He is best known for his views of
the Broads and Dutch beaches as well as sketches of Venice.
Examples of work by Thomas Bush
Hardy are in the British Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum; Haworth Art
Gallery, Accrington; Cartwright Hall, Bradford;
Dundee City Art Gallery; Tower Gallery, Eastbourne;
Greenwich; Gray Art Gallery, Hartlepool; Leeds City
Art Gallery; Leicestershire Art Gallery; City Art Gallery, Manchester; Newport
Art Gallery; Nottingham University and Sydney Art Gallery.
