{"title":"Halliday, Michael F.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Frederick Halliday (1822-1869)\u003c\/strong\u003e was an English amateur artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe was born to Michael, a captain in the navy, and Jane Hester in 1822. From 1839 until his death he 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalliday 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. He doesn't appear to have married.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe died at the age of 47 after a short illness at Thurloe Place, South Kensington, on 1 June 1869, and was buried at Brompton Cemetery.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"halliday-michael-f-1822-1869-the-measure-for-the-wedding-ring-1855","title":"Halliday, Michael F. (1822-1869) - The Measure for the Wedding Ring 1855","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-huuid=\"8060465135851669000\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Measure for the Wedding Ring\" is a painting by the British artist Michael F. 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