Litigation and Disillusion
Beard was a robust defender of his commercial interests, engaging in many legal actions, including against Antoine Claudet and most famously Beard v. Egerton. This long and complicated case seems ultimately to have exhausted his appetite for litigation. Though he was declared bankrupt in 1849, this seems likely to have been a mere commercial device and there is no evidence that he was impoverished, his son Richard having gradually acquired the running of the business.
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