Heywood hardy biography of williams

Heywood Hardy 25 November — 20 January 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 at Chichester in Sussex, the youngest of ten children of the artist James Hardy senior — and his wife Elizabeth.

When he was 17 years old Heywood Hardy left the family home in Bath after an argument with his quick-tempered father and removed to Keynsham near Bristol. 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 was living at Goring in Oxfordshire, near the bridge over the Thames.

Heywood Hardy was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes.

The picture at once gives a great rise in artistic rank to the artist. Hardy visited Egypt in to paint wildlife. His pictures of horse riding by the seashore and riders in 18th century settings are among his most popular paintings. Hardy painted three winners of the Grand National for their owners.

Heywood Hardy (25 November – 20 January ) was a British artist, in particular an animal painter and painter of horse riding scenes.

Notable portraits include that of Lady Ida Sitwell ; her husband Sir George Sitwell commissioned it as a wedding present. In Heywood Hardy returned to live in Sussex, at East Preston , a few minutes walk from the beach. His eldest daughter, Nina, exhibited 15 paintings at the Royal Academy, mostly portraits of women and children. Beldy married Charles Ormond Maugham, elder brother of writer Somerset Maugham and partner in the family law firm in Paris.

Paintings by Heywood Hardy at Wikimedia Commons. Heywood Hardy at Artrenewal. Contents move to sidebar hide.