Miss Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé CBE
Born 1856
Died 18 May 1926
Active: 1886 - 1918
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, medallist, enameller and jewellery designer
Born in Manchester. She was the daughter of Sir Charles Hallé (1819-95) the pianist, conductor and founder of the Hallé orchestra by his first wife, Marie, who was French and died in 1866. Her older brother was the painter Charles Edward Hallé (born c.1847). Elinor studied at the Slade under Alphonse Legros. She made a number of medals including those of Cardinals Manning, Mercier, and Newman, the Royal Geographical Society Emin Pasha Relief Expedition Medal, 1890 as well as a medal of her father. Hallé made the collar for the Royal Victorian Order, and the insignia of the Orders of the British Empire and Companions of Honour.
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 17 Mulberry Walk, Chelsea. Elinor Hallé 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. One of her colleagues at the Surgical Requisites Association was Anne Acheson. Hallé was awarded a CBE for her war work.
This record includes information from an obituary for Elinor Hallé in 'The Tablet', 29th May 1926, p. 24.
Wealth at death: £3,558 8s. 0d.
Probate date: 22 June 1926
Works
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Locations
Address 11 Mansfield Street St Marylebone London | View on map
1881
Address 10 Fitzroy Street London | View on map
1886 (Circa)
Address 2 Cowper Mansions Leete Street London SW | View on map
1891 (Circa)
Address 20 Milner Street Cadogan Square London SW | View on map
1894 (Circa) - 1901 (Circa)
Address 8 Upper Cheyne Row Chelsea London | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Address 27 Oakley Street Chelsea London | View on map
1914 (Circa)
Address 26 Yeoman's Row Brompton Road London SW | View on map
1926
Living here at the time of her death.
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, five works in all (two medals of Cardinal Newman, one medal of Herr Joachim in 1886-87 and 'Girl with Fan' relief, coloured wax cat. no. 2217 and a medal in wax of the Countess Feodora Gleichen cat. no. 2219 in 1914).
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).
Personal and Professional Connections
Friends with Ellen Mary Rope
Student of Alphonse Legros
Probably in the early or mid-1880s.
Worked with Anne Crawford Acheson
1915
They worked together at the Surgical Requisites Association, an adjunct of the Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild at 17 Mulberry Walk in Chelsea. They developed a papier-mache splint from sugar bags.
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.
Listed in Magazine of Art
Hallé's work was illustrated in Charlotte J. Weeks, 'Women at Work: the Slade Girls', January, 1883, p. 324
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artist Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1881
none
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
'Artist Sculptor'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Artist Sculptor' and her older brother (head of household) born c.1847 in Paris, 'Artist Painter'
Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Artist (Sculptor)' and her older brother Charles Edward (born c.1847 in Paris) 'Artist (Painter)'
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, 1881
2004
Class: RG11; Piece: 140; Folio: 56; Page: 19; GSU roll: 1341031
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, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 60 folio 142 page 82
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
Class: RG13; Piece: 73; Folio: 129; Page: 67
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 73 folio 129 page 67
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN404 RG78PN13 RD4 SD2 ED7 SN559
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Jan-Feb-Mar 1856;
Registration District: Chorlton, Lancs;
Vol. 8c; Page 525
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Elinor Halle
Probate Date: 22 Jun 1926
Death Date: 18 May 1926
Death Place: Middlesex, England
Registry: London, England
Magazine of Art
Charlotte J. Weeks, 'Women at Work: the Slade Girls', January, 1883, pp. 324-29
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 04 Oct 2023]
