Background
Hardy was born in Brighton in Sussex the first son (of 8 children) of George Hardy (b 1796 in London), a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor.
Hardy was born in Brighton in Sussex the first son (of 8 children) of George Hardy (b 1796 in London), a musician to George IV, Queen Adelaide, and Queen Victoria in the Royal household at Windsor.
His mother was Sarah Lloyd (b 1804). Hardy became an oil painter of light-hearted genre subjects and moved to the artists" colony in Cranbrook in Kent. Hardy died in Eastbourne in 1909.