Miss Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé CBE
Born 1856
Died 1926
Active: 1886 - 1918
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, medallist, enameller and jewellery designer
Born in Manchester. Studied at the Slade. During the First World War she worked for Surgical Requisites Association. This was the central orthopaedic branch of Queen Mary's Needlework Guild and was started at Mulberry Walk, Chelsea. Elinor Halle first utilized papier-mache as a material for arm cradles, and then devised a light boot, with a papiermache back, for drop foot, which was in such great demand that centres were opened for making them throughout France and Italy as well as in Great Britain and India. She was awarded a CBE for her war work.
Works
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Locations
Address 20 Milner Street Cadogan Square London SW | View on map
Address 10 Fitzroy Street London | View on map
1886 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1894
'Love's Whispers'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1886 - 1914
Exhibited 3 times, one or two works each year.
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the sixteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1886
1886
Music (cat. no. 1278, terracotta, £30).
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1896
1896
The late Sir Charles Halle (cat. no. 1195, not for sale).
Descriptions of Practice
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume II, 1904 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist active from 1884. Member of the Society of Medallists and exhibitor at their shows. Forrer cites Speilmann, 'British Sculptors of To-day' as a source: see Forrer, vol. 2, (1904), p. 387.
Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VII, 1923 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Forrer lists some of Hallé's medallic works that are dated 1886, 1887 and 1890, and a portrait medallion in wax that was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1914. See vol. 7, (1923), p. 411.
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artist Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor'
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-sixth, 1896 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1896
pp. 45-48.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1894
1894
Cat Nos. 591, 768 (an etching), pp. 52, 68, 101
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
Class: RG12; Piece: 60; Folio 142; Page 82; GSU roll: 6095170
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 73; Folio: 129; Page: 67
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Jan-Feb-Mar 1856;
Registration District: Chorlton, Lancs;
Vol. 8c; Page 525
Citing this record
'Miss Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé CBE', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1207150652, accessed 23 May 2013]
