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Watercolour painter, printmaker, writer and museum curator, born in London. After studying at Cambridge University Hardie studied art at the Royal College of Art under Frank Short. Hardie went on to become keeper of the departments of painting and engraving, illustration and design at the Victoria & Albert Museum, from which he retired in 1935. He exhibited watercolours in a traditional style at RA, RSW, RWS, RSMA, NEAC and elsewhere, along with fine etchings at RE. The Victoria & Albert Museum plus many provincial galleries hold his work. He was a distinguished writer on art, notably of the standard three-volume work Water-colour Painting in Britain. Lived at Tonbridge, Kent. Text source: ‘Artists in Britain Since 1945’ by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
Born: 1875
Died: 1952
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Martin Hardie
The British school of etching: being a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club / by Martin Hardie, R.E., on July 8th, 1921, with a foreword by Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E., R.I. - London: [1921]
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Edward Verrall Lucas
The pageant of Empire : souvenir volume : an anthology of British Empire / by E.V. Lucas; illustrations by Frank Brangwyn, R.A., Spencer Pryse, and Macdonald Gill ; edited by Martin Hardie - London: 1924
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Malcolm Charles Salaman
The charm of the etcher's art / preamble by Malcolm C. Salama - London: 1920
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