Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-03-21

q Virginia planter, of English descent,
and others of bis ancestors were prob
ably Scotch. His father was the late
Major Robert Gordon Hardie. During
boyhood, while in district and high
schools, bis productions of caricatures,
maps, and sketches of all sorts,
showed his bent for drawing, so that
he finally went to New York, and in
the Cooper Institute, the Academy of
Design and the Art Students League
pursued the study of art. Then en-
couraged by Professor Charlier he
went TO Paris to continue his studies
under the great French teachers at
the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In the fall
OF 1878 he was ad Omitted as pupil to
M. Gerome. Mr.. Hardie shared his
studio with friend on Rue Notre
Dame-des- Champs, not far from the
Luxembourg Gardens. His expenses
per week were cut down as low as he
could well do it, making it about So 20
per week. He received favors from
NJ Bartholdi, the sculptor. For FIVE
years he worked s.udiously in the
school of Fine Arts and in 1879 re-
ceived honorable mention. In 1880 he
sent crayon portrait of woman to
the Salon, receiving honorable men
ton for the same. In the fall of $50,
being in need of a change of air, he
journeyed down the river Loire, and
was Hospitality entertained atVendome
by Marquis de Rochambeau, direct
descendant of Count de Roch am beau
who commanded the French troops at
Yorktown. The avenue leading from
the highway to the castle is almost
| two miles long and is arched over by
| beech trees one hundred and seventy
years old. All this with the time for
sketching through the valley of the
Loire and in the quaint villages of
Montoire and Troo, with their curious
old houses, dating back to the time of
Henry ", afforded Hardle ample OPP
portunity of being we'll laden with
studies of landscapes, heads, figures
and still life upon his return to the
Art School) In 1881 he exhibited a
portrait of William st. Claire of
Washington, D. @. In 1882 he became
a pupil of Cabanal and from that time
on his portraits were highly esteemed
Among those who sat to him for por-
traits were Larkin Mead, sculptor;
Mary Wilkins, author; Mary Howe,
singer, and VIM. Morris Hunt, painter
In 'sS bis full length, life sized por-
trait of David Dudley Field, painted
for the Court of Appeals at Albany,
N. Y, attracted an uncommon degree
of attention. The fine portrait Of
James II. Beal, president of the Sec
ond National Bank of Boston, served
to introduce the artist to the public Of
this city. Ever since that time, about
ten years ago, he has passed back and
forth from his studios in New YORK
and Boston, occasionally stopping
with his mother in Brattleboro. Uni
versity presidents and professors
eminent judges, great scientific men
great merchants and statesmen hat
their portraits painted by him; ant
he exhibited sound and skillful hand
ling of his work, studious representa-
ton of detailed facts, vigour of mod
cling and construction. That G
Senator Redfield Proctor is one of TIM
most remarkable for intense vitalit.
, and strong expression of individual
) character, among all his products. I
! is portrait which looks, listens AM
! judges. Mr.. Hardie painted for ex
, hibition at the Worlds Fair of 1893
, delightful portrait of his wife, daugh
, ter of Senator Cullom of Illinois. I
. was a picture radiant with youth an
: beauty, representing her in an even
, ing gown of changeable golden sill
with clouded violet shadows. In %
a in his Dartmouth Street studio, Bos
+ ton, his painting of a lady was tn
a most charming thing in point of colo
J.. he ever produced. 1t depicted to
n lady, wearing a broad brimmed ha
: gown of pale rose and lilac, sc
t against background of red and blu
# tapestry. His portrait of Simon New
o comb, professor of astronomy, paint
: ed for the Johns Hopkins Universit
|. of Baltimore, may challenge compa,
r ison with almost any modern worl
a During the last three years, M
a Hardie has devoted much time
=. painting ex Gov. Levi K. Fuller an
"a another portrait of Geo. Washingto
= in various regalia for the grand lods
n of England, of which King Edward
Ia Grand Master. In October 1899, M
ia Hardie married in New York cit
r Amy Sigourney Stone, whose tuner
- was held on SATURDAY. Jan 9th 100