Thomas Bush Hardy RBA
Thomas Bush Hardy RBA, Shoreham, Sussex – late 19th-century watercolour painting
Thomas Bush Hardy RBA, Shoreham, Sussex – late 19th-century watercolour painting

Thomas Bush Hardy RBA Shoreham with Kingston Buci Lighthouse, Sussex

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An original late 19th-century watercolour painting, Thomas Bush Hardy RBA, Shoreham with Kingston Buci Lighthouse, Sussex.

A lovely signed watercolour by highly regarded and sought-after marine artist Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (1842–1897). The coastal landscape is filled with light—the sands, sky and lighthouse coloured only with the subtlest of wash. The work achieves a strong sense of atmosphere through an impressionistic application of paint and a real economy of palette and mark-making.

The lighthouse or Kingston Buci lies on the West Sussex coast at Shoreham where the River Adur meets the English Channel.

On board.

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Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897)

Thomas Bush Hardy RBA (1842–1897) was a highly prolific artist who achieved great popular success. He belonged to the generation of later 19th-century British marine artists whose careers developed in the wake of the success achieved by such watercolourists as Clarkson Stanfield, Edward William Cooke and Copley Fielding.

Hardy was born in Sheffield in 1842. Little is known about his artistic training and it is presumed that he was self-taught. Age nineteen he enlisted on the Unionist side in the American Civil War, but he returned from America just a year later when he invalided out. By 1870 he had settled in London, with a clerical job and a developing career as a painter specialising in coastal and marine views.

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.

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+ Artwork Details

Dimensions: Height: 15.7cm (6.18") Width: 35.3cm (13.9")

Presented: Unframed.

Medium: Watercolour

Age: Late 19th-century

Signed: Signed lower right.

Inscribed: Inscribed lower right and verso.

Dated: --

Condition: Some age toning across the board, as shown. Slight wear to the corners of the board. Please see photos for detail. There are historic adhesive marks and/or paper remnants to the verso, from previous mounting.

Stock number: JW-174