Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Profile portrait of R.P. Longden, (Bobby Longdon) half-length, c.1927
Charcoal, 11 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (30 x 38.5 cm.)
Profile portrait of R.P. Longden, (Bobby Longdon) half-length, c.1927 quantity
The Artist's Estate; Private collection
This is probably a study for the figure in Halliday's Rome School Allegory of Hypnos for which Longden served as the model.
Halliday's portrait of Bobby Longden 1928, helped establish Halliday's reputation as a portrait painter when it was shown at the RA in 1929. Bobby Longden, a classics scholar who later became headmaster of Wellington Collage, was at the British School during the same period as Halliday.
Charcoal, Medium, Men, Portraits, Subject
Halliday
Painter in oil and watercolour mainly of portraits. Born in Liverpool, Halliday studied at the City School of Art there, in Paris at the Atelier Colarossi and at the Royal College of Art. He was awarded the Prix de Rome and worked at the British School there. Exhibited at RA, RBA, Paris Salon and RP, of which for a time he was president. His work is in the collections of HM The Queen, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Athenaeum Club, Wolverhampton Royal Hospital and Bootle Dyeworks. His work was reproduced in The Studio, Illustrated London News and The Times and he was interviewed by Stanley Casson for his book Artists at Work, published in 1933. In 1997, the University of Liverpool held an exhibition which concentrated on Halliday's efforts to popularise art between the wars. Halliday's daughter Charlotte is also an artist. He lived in London.
Study for The Story of Marsyas
Portrait of a man, probably Edward Lyon, circa 1925
Study of a sculptural head, circ a 1925
Figure of Christ, circa 1930
View across the Venetian Lagoon, 25 sept 1957
Portrait of a man with glasses
Portrait of young boy, possibly after Pontorma, c.1930
Portrait of a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, c.1930
Head of a hunting dog, c.1930
Study for Rome Scholarship, 1925
Royal College Art Class, c.1925
Mural design for The Good Intent – The Founding of Chelsea Royal Hospital, 1935
Full length nude, 1934
Mural design for The Good Intent – Dr Johnson with the Chelsea China Factory, 1935
Caesar fording Thames
Mural design for The Good Intent with Carlyle, Whistler and Stunners, Cremorne Gardens, 1935
Mural design forThe Good IntentCremorne Gardens, 1935
Full length portrait of a woman standing, three quarter view, black evening dress, circa 1935