Paul Hardy
ARTISTPaul Hardy had been born in Bath on 2 August 1862. Bath was already the largest city in the southern English county of Somerset with a formative culture during the lifetime of the painter and illustrator. Hardy was the son of David Hardy and Emely Hardy, who had him baptized as Paul Frederick Hardy. Both his father and grandfather were also artists. When the time came, Paul went to school in Clifton, West Yorkshire. In 1886 he had settled in the southwest London district of Chelsea, and two years later he married. Back in the country, more precisely in the small town of Storrington, Hardy designed the weather vane of a sailing ship. Today it is kept as one of the artist's first works in St. Mary's Church in Storrington.
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