Dudley Hardy

After a further two years' study in Paris and at Antwerp Academy he returned to England to live and work in London.

[6] The preferred subjects for his work became the Middle East and Brittany; painting scenes of desert life and Breton peasantry.

[2][3][9] In the early 1900s he produced a range of comical postcards,[10] and in 1909 a series of caricatures for the souvenir programme of the Doncaster Aviation Meeting, England's first airshow.

[12] Hardy's coloured illustration shows three different views of a standing man on the north African coast.

Dudley Hardy died of heart failure in 1922, and was buried at Brookwood Cemetery near Woking in Surrey.

Hardy's grave in Brookwood Cemetery
Today poster - Yellow Girl from the "Les maîtres de l'affiches" series
A Gaiety Girl from the Les Maitres de l'Affiche series (c 1895)