Heywood Hardy, Riding on the Dunes 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dolly Henry, with Footnotes. #50

Heywood Hardy, (British, 1843-1933)
“Riding on the Dunes”
Oil on canvas
33″ x 30″
Private collection

Heywood Hardy (25 November 1842 – 20 January 1933) was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes. He also painted landscapes and portraits, especially equestrian portraits.

Heywood Hardy was born on 25 November 1842 at Chichester in Sussex, the youngest of ten children of the artist James Hardy senior. When he was 17 years old Heywood Hardy left the family home in Bath and removed to Keynsham near Bristol. His first two paintings, landscapes, were accepted for exhibition at The Royal Academy in 1864. In the same year he was appointed an Ensign in the 7th Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, a part-time position. Later that year he left Keynsham to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.Hardy spent much of his spare time copying paintings in the Louvre.

After his years of bohemianism in Paris, Heywood returned to England via Antwerp and by 1869 was living at Goring in Oxfordshire, near the bridge over the Thames.

His pictures of horse riding by the seashore and riders in 18th century settings are among his most popular paintings. He was much in demand to paint equestrian portraits and pictures of the most famous Hunts and foxhounds of his day.

Heywood Hardy was a founder member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, a founder member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, and an Associate of the Royal Watercolour Society. More on Heywood Hardy

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