Artist / Maker / Factory
FREDERICK DANIEL HARDY (1826-1911)
Dimensions
3.50inch wide
2.50inch high
(8.89 cm wide 6.35 cm high)
External Dimensions
16.00inch framed width
6.75inch framed height
(40.64 cm framed width 17.14 cm framed height)
Literature
M64310
BY THE FIRE SIDE, AT SCHOOL
& PRAYERS AT BEDTIME
FREDERICK DANIEL HARDY
1826 – 1911 Monogrammed
Oil on board Each 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches
Framed size 6 ¾ x 16 inches
F.D. Hardy was born in 1826, son of a musician and brother of George Hardy 1822 - 1909. He became a painter of genre scenes, especially interiors featuring children. He studied under Thomas Webster and had a studio at Webster’s house in Cranbrook where he lived from 1854 -1875.
Hardy exhibited works at the Royal Academy from 1851-1898 and at the British Institute from 1851 - 1856. Hardy was a member of the Cranbrook Colony in Kent along with Webster, A.E. Mulready, G.B O’Neill and J.C. Horsley.
F.D. Hardy died at Cranbrook in 1911.
Bibl: Dictionary of Victorian Painters – C. Wood
