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THOMAS HART FSA(1830-1916) 'POLPERRO SOUTH COAST OF CORNWALL 400 X 740mm
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Lot Details
watercolour, signed, entitled and labelled on reverse 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.
