Thomas Bush Hardy
Off Dover
Shipping in a Storm off Calais Harbour
Sailors salvaging a wreck below Banborough Castle
On the Dutch Coast
Her Majesty's Customs. London
Thomas Bush Hardy (1842, Sheffield – 1897, Maida Vale, London) was a British marine painter and watercolourist.
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.[7]
Seascape (circa 1880) is held at Rotherham Museum and Galleries.[8]
Landscape (1882) is held at The National Library of Wales.[9]
Museums Sheffield holds Seascape (1887).[10] It also holds two paintings, each called Sea Piece. One is dated 1880[11] and the other is undated.[12]
Portsmouth Harbour (1891) is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.[13]
Off the Dutch Coast (1896) is in the collection of Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council.[14]
A French Paddle Tug Bringing a Barque into Boulogne Harbour in Heavy Weather is in the National Maritime Museum.[15]
View on the Grand Canal, Venice (1871),[16]Calais (1886),[17]Boulogne Harbour,[18] and Fishing Boats at Sea[19] are in the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection.
References
"Thomas Bush Hardy, 1842–1897". The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
"Thomas Bush Hardy". Martins, Cheltenham. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
Dyduch, Amy (7 March 2014). "Keeping the memory of a family of artists alive". Richmond and Twickenham Times.
He belongs to the Katwijk School which was part of the Hague School — the latter belongs to the international movement of the Impressionism.
"Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (1842–1897)". www.thomasbushhardy.com. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
"Schevening, the Netherlands by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Towing Boats out of Calais". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Seascape by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Landscape by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Seascape by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Sea Piece by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Sea Piece by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Thomas Bush Hardy". Collection. Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Off the Dutch Coast by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"A French Paddle Tug Bringing a Barque into Boulogne Harbour in Heavy Weather by Thomas Bush Hardy". Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"View on the Grand Canal, Venice". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Calais". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Boulogne Harbour". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
"Fishing Boats at Sea". Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
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