Melbourne Hardwick (Massachusetts, Nova Scotia / Canada, 1857 - 1916) Oil on canvas painting of a woman and a cat in an interior setting. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left. Sight Size: 26.5 x 22.5 in. Overall Size: 32.75 x 28.25 in. Hardwick was a member of the Boston Art Club; the Boston Society of Watercolor Painters; the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; and the Salmagundi Club (1907) in New York City. He exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; the National Academy of Design in New York City; and annually with the Boston Art Club from 1891 to 1909. Hardwick's work is represented in the collections of the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA ,"Salt Marsh"; the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "Mid-Summer"; and the Cigna Museum and Art Collection in Philadelphia, PA, "Ebb Tide, Cape Ann," c. 1914 and "Summer Landscape,"c.1914.