Martin Hardie RE: best known today as an important writer on art especially his pioneering work on re-introducing the work of Samuel Palmer in the 1920’s. His etchings derive from the influence of Sir Frank Short and the subject matter from the scenery of East Anglia. Ref: James Laver: Catalogue of the etchings and drypoints of Martin Hardie C.B.E. RE, Print Collectors Quarterly XXV,81-98 and 217-234. 1938./ F.Hardie: The Prints of Martin Hardie. Ashmolean Museum , 1975.