Frederick Daniel Hardy was born on 13th February 1827 at Windsor the third child of George Hardy and Sarah Lloyd. George Hardy was a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria in the royal household at Windsor. Frederick studied at the Royal Academy of Music but in 1846 at the age of 19 decided to follow in the footsteps of his elder brother George Hardy and become a painter. On 11th March 1852 he married Rebecca Sophia Dorrofield at Chorleywood in Hertfordshire where their first son was born and, then, in 1854 the couple moved to Cranbrook, Kent where they had a family of four further sons and one daughter between 1855 and 1865. The Hardy's also maintained a property at Brunswick Gardens, Kensington in London where they lived when not resident in Cranbrook
Frederick Daniel Hardy, George Hardy, Thomas Webster, George Bernard O'Neill, John Callcott Horsley and Augustus Edwin Mulready were an informal group of six professional painters known as the Cranbrook Colony that thrived in Cranbrook in the latter half of the nineteenth century. They were a close association of colleagues and friends, and, in the case of the Hardy brothers and G.B. O'Neill, distant relatives. All six were "Genre" painters depicting scenes from daily life, either real or imaginary and, through their work, we have an accurate depiction of the people and homes in the Cranbrook area during the Victorian age. Often the Colony used their children, families and friends as models with the Hardys and Webster focused on rustic interiors and O'Neill and Horsley on picturesque historic architecture. The six painters, who occupied The Old Studio in the High Street, were prolific in their work and exhibited extensively at the Royal Academy and the British Institution.
On 1st April 1911 Frederick Daniel Hardy died at 1 Waterloo Place, Cranbrook and was buried at St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook
George Hardy | m: 19th Feb 1822 Brighton, Sussex | Sarah Lloyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 1796 St Georges, Hanover Square, London | b: 1804 Westminster, London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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b: c Dec 1822 Brighton, Sussex ch: 18th Dec 1822 St. Nicholas Church d: Oct to Dec 1909 | b: 1824 Brighton, Sussex ch: 24th Dec 1824 St. Nicholas Church | b: 13th Feb 1827 Windsor, Berkshire d: 1st Apr 1911 1 Waterloo Place, Cranbrook, Kent bur: After 1st Apr 1911 St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent | b: 1829 | b: 1837 Windsor, Berkshire | b: 1840 Windsor, Berkshire | b: 1844 Windsor, Berkshire | b: 1848 Windsor, Berkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Daniel Hardy | m: 11th Mar 1852 Chorleywood, Hertfordshire | Rebecca Dorrofield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 13th Feb 1827 Windsor, Berkshire d: 1st Apr 1911 1 Waterloo Place, Cranbrook, Kent bur: After 1st Apr 1911 St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook, Kent | b: 16th Jul 1827 Chorleywood, Hertfordshire ch: 14th Oct 1827 Rickmansworth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frederick Rembrandt | Lewis | Arthur William | Edwin George | Herbert Charles | Amelia Gertrude | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
b: 14th Mar 1853 Amersham, Buckinghamshire ch: 17th Apr 1853 Chenies | b: Jan to Mar 1855 Cranbrook, Kent | b: Jan to Mar 1857 Cranbrook, Kent | b: Jan to Mar 1860 Cranbrook, Kent | b: Jul to Sep 1863 Cranbrook, Kent | b: Oct to Dec 1865 Cranbrook, Kent ch: 12th Nov 1865 St Dunstan's Church d: 1952 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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