Background
Hardy was born in Pelham, New Hampshire.
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Jeremiah Hardy
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He first studied painting in Boston under David Brown, and then in New York under Samuel F.B. Morse, who was also the inventor of the telegraph.
Career
Among his extant works are:
The Artists"s Rose Garden (1855)
Portrait of Review Cyrus Hamlin, Doctor of Divinity
Portrait of Molly Molasses (Collection of Bangor Public Library)
Portrait of Sarah Molasses (Collection of Bangor Public Library)
Portrait of John Neptune (Collection of Bangor Public Library)
Portrait of Abraham Hanson
Two McLaughlin Pears
A New England Picnic (c 1855, Collection of Boston Museum of Fine Art)
Hardy"s brother Jonathan became a successful local fur-trapper, as did Jonathan"s son, Manly Hardy. Manly Hardy"s daughter (Jeremiah Hardy"s grandniece) was the folklorist Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm.
Membership
By 1826 Hardy had moved to Bangor, then a booming lumber port, and stayed for the rest of his life, painting portraits of not only the local elite but Penobscot Indians, the black barber Abraham Hanson, and members of his own family.
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Nationality
United States