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Description: | This is an early work by FD Hardy and one of the first where he introduced figures. Although the figures are not particularly confidently painted, the composition demonstrates Hardy's skill for painting still life arrangements featured on the small table, on the mantelpiece and in the foreground.
A charming study of a clergyman reading to an old couple. The three people sit by the fire the couple's bare room. Although he did not attend the Royal Academy Schools, nor did he travel like his brother, Frederick is considered the most prominent member of the Cranbrook Colony.
Oil painting showing an elderly couple sat by a range in a simple domestic interior. A visiting clergyman is reading to the couple. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Worship Fine arts Women Oil painting Old age Cottages Old people Homes Religious life Cranbrook Colony of Artists Clergy Religious faith Houses Clergymen Men Religion Oil Paintings Victorian period Interiors Religious belief Elderly people Religious groups Prayers Paintings Narrative painting People Art collections | Temporal: | 1850 - 1885
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | HARDY; Frederick Daniel (1827 - 1911) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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