Code: 5063
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A beautiful signed and dated 1895 oil on board depicting shipping off the coast, by Thomas Bush Hardy.
Excellent quality work by this sought after English marine painter and a rare work in oil. Signed and dated lower left. Presented in a gold frame and glazed.
Artist: Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (English, 1842-1897)
Title: Shipping off the Coast
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 17.5 x 26.5 inches (44 x 68 cm) including the frame
Thomas Bush Hardy was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, on 3 May 1842. As a young man he travelled in the Netherlands and Italy.
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. His paintings feature coastal scenes in England and the Netherlands, the French Channel ports and the Venetian Lagoon.
He died on 15 December 1897 in Maida Vale, London, and was buried in an unmarked grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Hardy had nine children. 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.
