Michael Frederick Halliday

Michael Halliday, son of a captain in the navy, from 1839 until his death was a clerk in the parliament office, House of Lords. He cultivated a taste for painting in later years with much energy and fair success.^[1]

He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853 a view of Moel Shabod from the Capel Curig Road. In 1856 he exhibited The Measure for the Wedding Ring, and two scenes from the Crimean War; the former attracted much notice and was engraved. He exhibited in 1857 The Sale of a Heart, in 1858 The Blind Basket-maker with his First Child, in 1864 A Bird in the Hand, and in 1866 Roma vivente e Roma morta. He contributed an etching of The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies to the edition of Hood's Poems published by the Junior Etching Club in 1858.^[1]

Halliday was one of the earliest members of the Pre-Raphaelite school of painting. He was also an enthusiastic volunteer, a first-rate rifle-shot, and one of the first English Eight who competed for the Elcho Shield at Wimbledon in 1862.^[1]

He died after a short illness at Thurloe Place, South Kensington, on 1 June 1869, and was buried at Brompton Cemetery.^[1]

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