Windham

HARDIE, Robert Gordon

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 181 
(portrait p 181)

Robert Gordon HARDIE, of Brattleboro, was born 29 March 1854 at Brattleboro 
[Windham County, Vermont], son of Robert Gordon and Frances (HYDE) HARDIE. 
He received his early education at the public schools of Brattleboro and 
Rutland. In 1874 he began his studies as an artist at the Academy of Design 
and Art Students' League in New York, and in 1878 went to Paris, France, to 
continue same at the Government Ecole des Beaux Arts under the instruction of 
MM. J. L. GEROME and Alexandre CABANEL. Exhibited in the Salon in 
1879-1880-1881-1882, returning to America in 1883. The first work which 
brought Mr. HARDIE prominently before the public was the portrait of Hon. 
David Dudley FIELD, painted in 1888 and now in the Capitol at Albany [Albany 
County], New York. In the same year [1888] he [Robert Gordon HARDIE] married 
Catharine, second daughter of Hon. S. M. CULLOM, U. S. Senator from Illinois.

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