Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), Novelist and poet
Sitter in 33 portraits
Novelist and poet; one of the last great novelists of the nineteenth century; his writing is both visionary and naturalistic, his doomed and tragic characters playing out their lives against a rural landscape, often set in his native Dorset. Among his major works are Far from the Madding Crowd, 1874, The Return of the Native, 1878, The Woodlanders, 1887, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 1891, and Jude the Obscure, 1896.
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by William Strang
oil on panel, 1893
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2929
by Emil Otto ('E.O.') Hoppé
hand-pulled photogravure, circa 1913-1914
NPG P310
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Athelhampton House, Dorchester, Dorset
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset
Hardy's Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
Max Gate, Dorchester, Dorset
The Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester
Category
Literature and Writing
Groups
Dorset
First World War Poets
Novelists and authors
Poets
Regency rebels, radicals and reformers
