Edward Halliday

Halliday continued his studies and attended life drawing classes at Académie Colarossi (1922–1923), the Royal College of Art (1923–1925), and the British School at Rome (1925–1928).

[7] During World War II, Halliday served in the Royal Air Force in Bomber Command.

[7] After the war in 1948, he received a painting commission for a portrait of Princess Elizabeth from the Drapers' Company of London.

Other sitters for Halliday's portraits included Winston Churchill, Edmund Hillary, Lord Denning, Lord Widgery, Louis Gluckstein, Robert Stopford, Lord Hunt, Frank Whittle, Malcolm Sargent, Leon Goossens, Beryl Grey, Gladys Cooper, Wally Hammond, Brian Johnston, and Ben Travers.

[7] Halliday had two arts series radio programs, Artists at Work (1932) and Design in Modern Life (1934).