English-born American Rococo Era Painter, active 1742-1775 Related Paintings of John Wollaston :. | Mrs.John Beale | Portrait of Mann Page and his sister Elizabeth | William Allen | Warner Lewis II and Rebecca Lewis | Portrait of Bendict Calvert Maryland politician and planter | Related Artists: Addison T . Millar American, 1860 - 1913 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.
Prats, Santiago Rusinol Spanish, 1861-1931