Edith Hayllar

The Summer Shower, 1893

Edith Parvin Hayllar (1860–1948) was a British artist who painted Victorian genre scenes.[1] She learned painting from her father, James Hayllar who also taught her three sisters Jessica, Kate and Mary. Edith is considered the most successful of the sisters as she exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, the Institute of Oil Painters, and the Dudley Gallery.[2]

Her painting A Summer Shower was shown at the Royal Academy in 1893. It depicts a tennis party taking shelter from the rain and was called "one of the most charming genre scenes of the nineteenth century."[3] She quit painting when she married Rev. Bruce MacKay in approximately 1900.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Edith Hayllar". CLARA Database of Women Artists. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Gray, Sara (2009). "Hayllar, Misses Edith, Jessica, Kate, and Mary". The Dictionary of British Women Artists (1st ed.). Cambridge: Lutterworth Press. p. 134. ISBN 0-7188-3084-9.
  3. ↑ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History (1st ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-313-28803-8.
  4. ↑ Harris, Ann Sutherland; Nochlin, Linda. Women Artists: 1550-1950. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 1976, p. 258.