Odda By Sydney E Hart

Odda By Sydney E Hart

Frame Size 13.5 ins (343 mm) by 12 ins (305 mm)

Image Size 5.5 ins (140 mm) by 3,5 ins (89 mm)

Sydney Ernest Hart

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Born 1867 The Lizard, Cornwall. Died 1921 Bergen, Norway

Sydney was the 4^th child of Thomas Hart the eminent Cornish artist.

Tutored by his father, and at 17 years he was exhibiting and selling them.

Several newspaper reports praise the quality of his pictures.

His works include this watercolour Odda By Sydney E Hart

Sydney joined his father on trips to Odda Norway and settled there earning a living by selling his art.

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In 1911 Raphael Tuck and sons Ltd of London included in there “Oilette” World Wide range 6 paintings by Sydney. Remained in there catalogue up to 1930.

The sales of art dropped and the death of his father in 1916 had an effect on him. He became  Reclusive and did not get on with the local people. 20 plus years in Odda he lived in 2 hotels.

In 1921 a chambermaid went to his room in the morning and found him bleeding from a wound.

Sydney went to hospital in Bergen by boat. On the 4th July he died

Odda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odda

Odda (help·info) is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The municipality is located in southeastern Hordaland county, surrounding the southern end of the Sørfjorden. The administrative centre is the town of Odda, which is also the main commercial and economic centre of the entire Hardanger region. Other villages in the municipality include Botnen, Eitrheim, Håra, Røldal, Seljestad, Skare, and Tyssedal.

The 1,616-square-kilometre (624 sq mi) municipality is the 42nd largest by area out of the 422 municipalities in Norway. Odda is the 150th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 7,025. The municipality’s population density is 4.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (12/sq mi) and its population has decreased by 1.8% over the last decade.^[2]

In 1927, Erling Johnson, working at Odda Smelteverk, invented a process to produce three-component, NPK fertilizers. This process is now known as the Odda process.

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