The artists in the Hardy family, Heywood, James, Frederick Daniel and several others, have always been popular with collectors. However, this is the first comprehensive assessment of their work, based on previously unpublished material and with illustrations of all their major paintings. Heywood Hardy was a remarkably versatile artist who did much to advance a more realistic portrayal of animals, landscapes, portraits and sporting scenes over a long and productive career from 1860 to 1927. His elder brother James Hardy junior became one of the most accomplished sporting artists of his day. And their cousin Frederick Daniel Hardy painted some of the most accurate and sympathetic pictures of life in country towns and villages. The book’s author, Kimber Hardy, a descendant of the Hardy painters, has called upon a significant collection of letters and documents about the artists. His revealing, intelligent narrative on their lives and works provides engaging accompaniment to the wealth of colour reproductions featured in the book. AUTHOR: An amateur painter, Kimber G. Hardy has had a lifelong interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art. He has spent several years researching the nineteenth-century artists in the Hardy family, helped by a collection of letters and documents (Kimber is a descendant of the Hardy family of artists). A retired expert in the molecular biology of disease, Kimber lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where he enjoys walking in the alps and sailing. SELLING POINTS: . The first comprehensive assessment of the Hardy family of artists . In-depth commentary on each artist’s work, along with extracts from contemporary sources . The artists’ major and lesser-known works reproduced in full colour . Hardy family tree and letters from Heywood Hardy reproduced for the first time 206 colour, 79 b/w