Thomas Bush Hardy

(British, 1842–1897)

venice towards the doge's palace by thomas bush hardy

Thomas Bush Hardy

Venice towards the Doge's Palace

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Biography

Timeline

Thomas Bush Hardy was a painter and watercolourist, born in Sheffield . He travelled in Holland and Italy .
Hardy’s prolific coastal scenes, painted in fresh and vivid colours achieved enormous popularity. With perhaps the exception of Charles Napier Henry and William Wyllie, no marine artist has achieved the popularity of Thomas Bush Hardy.

Exhibitions

Hardy exhibited at Suffolk Street from 1871 to 1897 and was elected R.B.A. in 1884. He exhibited forty-four works at the Royal Society of British Artists, twenty-one at the Royal Academy. He also exhibited at Agew & Son’s Gallery, Dowdeswell Galleries, Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Arthur Tooth & Son’s Gallery