On Loan
Edward Halliday
(1902 - 1984)
Paris Interior
On Loan
Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Size:
Height – 46.3cm
Width – 55.4cm
Edward Halliday began his artistic training at the Liverpool College of Art in his hometown of Liverpool. In autumn 1922, he moved to Paris to continue his studies at the Académie Colarossi.
During this period, he lived at 65, Boulevard Arago in the 13th arrondissement, within the famous ‘Cité Fleurie’ artists’ commune. This vibrant hub, located between numbers 61 and 67, hosted thirty studios and attracted numerous influential artists and writers. Halliday shared the studio at number 65 with his elder sister, Violet Halliday (1900–1959), from autumn 1922 until early summer 1923.
This formative year in Paris, immersed in the international art scene, prepared Edward for his next major milestone. In 1925, he won the Rome Scholarship in Mural Painting, allowing him to spend three academic years (1925–1928) at the British School at Rome. There, he developed his distinctive realist style before returning to a career that would eventually include work in radio and broadcasting, as well as notable portrait commissions.
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.
