Henry George Alexander Holiday
Born 17 June 1839
Died 15 April 1927
Active: 1854 - 1920
Country of birth and death: England
Painter, stained glass designer, sculptor, illustrator
Principal stained-glass designer for James Powell & Sons from 1863, a post he retained till c.1890. In 1864 he married Catherine Harriet (Kate) Raven (1839–1924), embroiderer, and sister of landscape painter John Samuel Raven. Stained glass design and painting were Holiday's primary media however he was an immensely versatile artist, illustrating Lewis Carroll's 'Hunting of the Snark', creating sculpture for Frederic Leighton's home, Leighton House ('Jacob's Ladder' exhibited at the Royal Academy, Arts and Craft's Exhibition Society and Liverpool Autumn Exhibition in 1884) and developing a method of relief enamelling. Holiday was a founder-member of the designers' group The Fifteen, the Art Workers Guild, and the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.
Works
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Locations
Address Oak Tree House Branch Hill London NW | View on map
1894 (Presumed) - 1910 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: First Exhibition, 1888
'Nymph and Cupid'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1858 - 1902
Exhibited 23 times, sculptures were shown in 1882 (Nymph and Cupid, bronze relief, cat. no. 1686) and 1884 (Jacob's Ladder, cat. no. 1743)
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eleventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1881
1881
Sleep (cat. no. 1435, not for sale).
Exhibited at Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the fourteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1884
1884
Jacob's Ladder (cat. no. 2268, not for sale).
Speaker at The Use of Colour in Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1890
Speaker at Architecture, from the Painter's and Sculptor's points of view (Art Workers Guild), 1892
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society
1889 - 1910 (Presumed)
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1890, p.5; 1892, p.4.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1904
1904
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: List of Members, 1907
1907
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the First Exhibition.
1888
p.96, pp.127-128, p.130, p.138, p.143, pp.168-169.
Arts and Crafts Society: Catalogue of the Second Exhibition.
1889
p.113.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1881 Walker Art Gallery
1881
pp. 81-82.
Liverpool autumn exhibition of modern pictures, 1884 Walker Art Gallery
1884
pp. 129-132.
Citing this record
'Henry George Alexander Holiday', 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=msib2_1209413372, accessed 30 Mar 2023]
