Dudley Hardy.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue XVIII, 31 October 1903, Page 3

Dudley Hardy.

p ;] May is sone, but another master - black and white remains to us in the person of Mr Dudley Hardy, and one >■ es for many a long day say- a I.on■>n journal)- The “Dudley Hardy r ] •• as fascinating in her boll, demi- ■ Maine way as the Gibson maid of • —American —degree, introdw-.-d her the public so long ago that one --.clined to look upon her brilliant inas a veteran: but in point of - he is quite a young man. whose . - lustrum still laeka lour years of -- ;ritv. Fairly tail, strongly built. ... -> something the .enuring of , famous “Ye w • dr'.’’ tn Mr Hardy's •• and brown. . -k< .> . - Bon camarade is h ...I t • siener 01- and a man who has - -he “slings and arrows of outrage- - : rtune" with the buckler of a stout R m peintre chasse de race, one -ir. varying the French proverb. ■ Hardv's father was a well-known -’-re painter. Planted in artistic then, this Hardy annual blossomed rb . and when but 15 was studying art ;.<el 1 rf. and afterwards under VerAntwerp. Then one morning he . <- - fin 1 imself cut off with a ing. Nothing daunted, he went to t-. and studied in the ateliers of 1 lin and > urt but ]ei haps i» art ts been most influenced by WilMuller and F >rtuny. Eighteen - ago his first picture was hung in R.A It represented a Dutch sandtw figures on it. and was not Iv hung but sold. Big success came rears later at the Salon with “Sans representing Trafalgar Square - igl -. an 1 sin ■ tl en. if black-and-rk has to some extent tramelle 1 him. he has given us many fine --’ires and of late has been lev ting self successfully to small full-lengt - rtraits. such as Mr Herbert ‘SHn'w - - well. Like Mr Mauri -e Greif fenl agen. Mr Hardy prefers painting t ' k-and-white. but few men can afford refuse t supply a big public 1< m md. - ] .and "-Tohnn’es continue aterial se t f end fI Is brill anr '- ,1m unrivall< ’ ' The first - r was for Sir Augustus Harris, and - ssiblv his most successful ones have the “Gaiety Girl" and the “YelGtrl’" for To-day.