Thomas Bush Hardy Biography

Thomas Bush Hardy (1842-1897) was a British marine painter and watercolourist.

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 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.