George Hardy (artist)
George Hardy (1822–1909) was an English genre painter, a member of the Cranbrook Colony and eldest brother to Frederick Daniel Hardy.[1]
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.
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- ↑ George Hardy Biography ("The Weald - people, history and genealogy").
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