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Heywood Hardy

Heywood Hardy (1843 - 1933) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  Heywood Hardy is known for Painting and etcher of portrait, animal and sporting subjects.

Heywood Hardy was a painter and etcher of animals, portraits, genre and sporting subjects.  He was born in Chichester, on 25th November 1842, son of the artist James Hardy, Sr (1801-79) and younger brother of James Hardy Jr (1832-89).

Hardy left home at the age of 17, and attempted to earn a living by painting animal pictures.  He did this successfully, and, after a short time with the 7th Somerset Volunteers, he borrowed some money from his brother and traveled to Paris.  In 1864 he entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts to study under the battle artist, Pielse.

He returned to England in 1868 and found he was in great demand.  He was often invited to country estates to paint portraits, sporting pictures and animal studies.  Hardy continued to enjoy commissions for portraits, animal studies and hunting scenes, but he decided to concentrate on painting genre subjects.  In addition, he provided illustrations for magazines such as the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2061 characters.]  Artist bio

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