ARTIST: Thomas Hart (British, 1830 - 1916)
NAME: Landscape - St. Michaels Mount, Lake Cornwall
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Some age toning. Very minor foxing (just two spots). Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 24 inches / 45 x 60 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Born at Crowan in Cornwall, Thomas Hart was baptised at the parish church there on 31st January 1830, the son of Thomas and Mary Hart. He therefore could perceivably have been born in 1829. By 1841 the family had moved to Falmouth. There largely self -taught, he began to build up a reputation as an artist and is recorded as such in 1851. By 1854 he was exhibiting his watercolours regularly at the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and a year later was acting as a judge in the annual Fine Art competitions. The society's reports make frequent reference to his 'effective marine pictures'. As well as painting he also taught art in Falmouth and in 1857 eleven of his pupils are recorded as winning prizes in the schools section of the Polytechnic competitions.He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Artists in 1856 and was a council member in 1861 and 1862. He was unsuccessful in becoming a member of NWS in three consecutive years from 1862. He exhibited in London including RA from 1865 to 1880. Along with his painting he took an early interest in photography and for a time in the early 1860s he had a photographic studio in Plymouth. This seems to have ended around the time he married Louisa Hallamore at Falmouth in 1862. However he continued his interest in photography, entering photographs at the Polytechnic for several years before becoming a judge in the photographic competition.In 1868 he had a house built at Polbrean at The Lizard and by 1871 he had moved his family to live there. According to the 1871 census his daughter Marie Louise HART was born there in 1867.Thomas Hart was father of twelve children, seven of whom became artists themselves, five of these professionally: Horace Percival HART, Herbert Passingham HART, Claude Montague HART, Tracey Douglas Dyke HART, Ruby Irene HART, Marie Louise HART and Sydney Ernest HART.He continued to live at The Lizard for the rest of his life although he did undertake some tours, possibly to Italy and Norway. He died at The Lizard aged 86 in 1916.