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Henry Holiday (1839-1927)
Aliases: Henry George Alexander Holiday; Henry James Holiday
Professions: Painter; Illustrator; Glass painter; Sculptor
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Henry Holiday , 1839-1927 diana or artemis, queen and huntress, chaste and fair (diana) watercolour heightened with bodycolour
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HENRY HOLIDAY, 1839-1927
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- Henry Holiday (1839 - 1927) , `Moses leaving the Court of Pharaoh': A memorial window to General Robert E. Lee
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HENRY HOLIDAY, 1839-1927
Henry Holiday Biography
(b London, 17 June 1839; d London, 15 April 1927). English stained-glass artist, painter and illustrator. He studied painting in London at Leigh’s Art School and the Royal Academy Schools, where he was influenced by Pre-Raphaelitism. Contact with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s circle and the architect William Burges introduced him to the applied arts, and from 1863 he worked primarily as a stained-glass artist, particularly in collaboration with the glass manufacturers James Powell & Sons and Heaton, Butler & Bayne. After visiting Italy in 1867 he abandoned his early Pre-Raphaelite style for one inspired by Classical and Renaissance art, aiming to create a ‘modern’ style of stained glass no longer dependent on medievalism. His memorial window (1868) to the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel in Westminster Abbey and the complete glazing scheme (1869–75) of St Mary Magdalene, Paddington, London, illustrate the expressive figure drawing and feeling for monumental scale characteristic of all his mature work. In 1891, dissatisfied with the working methods of the commercial stained-glass firms, he established his own workshop in Hampstead, London, and experimented successfully with making pot-metal glass. Many of Holiday’s later commissions were for American churches; his windows (1898–1925) in Holy Trinity, Manhattan, New York, reveal the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement in their emphatic leading and use of richly textured glass. As a painter Holiday is best known for his Dante and Beatrice (1883; Liverpool, Walker A.G.); his most important illustrations are those for Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876). He also produced graphics in support of such social and political causes as Dress Reform and Irish Home Rule. In 1892 he became editor of Aglaia , the journal of the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union, contributing articles and illustrations.
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Henry George Holiday (1839-1927) Cleopatra, Joan of Arc & Iphigenia 42 x 18.5in.
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Study of a draped classical figure, full-length
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