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JAMES HAYLLAR, RBA
James Hayllar (Haylar) was born in Chichester, England on January 3, 1829. He was a painter of portraits, figure subjects, genre scenes and landscapes. He also worked with watercolors and gouaches. He studied with the master teacher and artist, F.S.Cary at the Royal Academy Schools, London. He then traveled and worked in Italy from 1851 through 1853. Hayllar exhibited quite successfully at the Royal Academy and the British Institution from 1950 through 1898 as well as at Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil-Colours. He exhibited most prominently at the Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street where he became a full member, (RBA). At first, Hayllar painted mainly portraits, but in 1866, he took up figurative painting of children, achieving his first success with “Miss Lily’s Carriage Stops the Way.” From that time, he continued to paint a great many subjects involving children and pretty girls. In 1875, Hayllar rented Castle Priory, a large house at Wallingford, on the Thames and he painted many of his pictures there, often depicting scenes of village life. Four of his daughters, Jessica, Edith, Mary and Kate were also highly talented artists, exhibiting along side their father at the Royal Academy. A study of the work of James Hayllar and his daughters was published by the author of The Connoisseur, Mr. Christopher Wood in the April – May 1974 edition, entitled ‘The Artistic Family Hayllar.” James Hayllar died in 1920. Today, his works can be found in private and public collections, including the Nottingham Museum of Fine Arts and most notably, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. |
