Thomas Bush Hardy

Thomas Bush Hardy (1842, Sheffield – 1897, Maida Vale, London) was a British marine painter and watercolourist.

Bragozzi off the Ducal Palace, 1882

Clearing a Wreck, near Boulogne

Biography

Hardy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire on 3 May 1842.[1] As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy.[2]

In 1884 Hardy was elected a Member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He exhibited with the Society[1] and also at the Royal Academy.[3]

His paintings feature coastal scenes[1] in England and the Netherlands,[4] the French Channel ports and the Venetian Lagoon.[5]

He died on 15 December 1897 in Maida Vale, London.[1]

Hardy had nine children.[3] 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.[3]

Works

• Schevening, the Netherlands (1873) is at Lamport Hall.[6]
• Towing Boats out of Calais (1878) is held at Laing Art Gallery.[6]
• Seascape (circa 1880) is held at Rotherham Museum and Galleries.[6]
• Landscape (1882) is held at The National Library of Wales.[6]
• Museums Sheffield holds Seascape (1887).[6] It also holds two paintings, each called Sea Piece. One is dated 1880[6] and the other is undated.[6]
• Portsmouth Harbour (1891) is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[7]
• Off the Dutch Coast (1896) is in the collection of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.[8]
• A French Paddle Tug Bringing a Barque into Boulogne Harbour in Heavy Weather is in the National Maritime Museum.[6]
• View on the Grand Canal, Venice (1871),[9]Calais (1886),[10]Boulogne Harbour,[11] and Fishing Boats at Sea[12] are in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection.

Notes and references

1. "Thomas Bush Hardy, 1842–1897". The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
2. "Thomas Bush Hardy". Martins, Cheltenham. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
3. Dyduch, Amy (7 March 2014). "Keeping the memory of a family of artists alive". Richmond and Twickenham Times.
4. He belongs to the Katwijk School which was part of the Hague School — the latter belongs to the international movement of the Impressionism.
5. "Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (1842–1897)". www.thomasbushhardy.com. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
6. "Thomas Bush Hardy". Art UK. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
7. "Thomas Bush Hardy". Collection. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
8. "Off the Dutch Coast by Thomas Bush Hardy". Art UK. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
9. "View on the Grand Canal, Venice". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
10. "Calais". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
11. "Boulogne Harbour". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
12. "Fishing Boats at Sea". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.

External links

• 10 paintings by or after Thomas Bush Hardy at the Art UK site

Further reading

• Kirby-Welch, David H; Morton Lee, Commander John. Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (1842–1897): A master painter of marine and coastal watercolours, Antique Collectors' Club, 2009, 245 pp.