Hardy work up for auction
A PAINTING by Thomas Hardy, Admiral Horatio Nelson's captain, has been unearthed after more than 200 years in a Scottish home.
The painting of a warship of Nelson's navy is the only known surviving work by Captain Hardy.
He was trained by the Royal Navy to be a competent artist so that he could draw enemy ships and coastlines. The drawings and paintings were not signed and were intended for strategic purposes, not as works of art.
Hardy gave the painting to Reverend Dr Alexander Scott, who was Nelson's private secretary. Handed down through the generations, the widow of Dr Scott's great, great, great, great, grandson has now decided to sell it.
The auction takes place this Saturday at Shapes in Edinburgh.
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