Watercolour painter, printmaker, writer and museum curator, born in London. After studying at Cambridge University Hardie studied art at the Royal College of Art under Frank Short. Hardie went on to become keeper of the departments of painting and engraving, illustration and design at the Victoria & Albert Museum, from which he retired in 1935. He exhibited watercolours in a traditional style at RA, RSW, RWS, RSMA, NEAC and elsewhere, along with fine etchings at RE. The Victoria & Albert Museum plus many regional galleries hold his work. He was a distinguished writer on art, notably of the standard three-volume work Water-colour Painting in Britain. Lived at Tonbridge, Kent.