Hart Family Paintings

Hart Family Paintings. The Lizard Point is the most southern point of mainland Great Britain and it for many ships is the starting point of their ocean passage as well as a notrious shipping hazard.There has been a lighthouse at this site since 1619, with the existing one being built around 1751 as two towers with cottages in between. Polbrean House itself is located just south of the lighthouse and was built in around 1868, when Thomas Hart moved from Falmouth. He is shown as living with his parents at, Upper Berkley Place, Falmouth, in the 1861 census. The house was commissioned by Thomas and included an artist’s studio. Having a home based art studio within this area obviously gave Thomas his inspiration as his most frequently painted subjects were the surrounding areas of The Lizard, Polbrean and Kynance Cove .https://kerrier.org/

Hart Family Paintings

Nine of the Hart children were born at Polbrean Villa on the Lizard, Herbert Passingham and Horace Percival the first two were born at Falmouth Cornwall, Six of the boys went on to become professional artists, only Barclay Boyd departed to Canada and worked most of his life on the Railway and Theodore Gurney who became a engineer and lived in Penzance Cornwall. Of the girls Marie Louise in younger life was a Artist and Sculptor, Beatrice Leaf for a time was a Theatrical Artist, Ruby Irene married in 1910 and shortly after they left Southampton for New York. In 1915 they returned from the USA to Liverpool four days later Lewis Charles Fortescue her husband died, on his death certificate it states he is a Farmer at St Leo, Pascoe County, Florida USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Leo,_Florida