Edith Hayllar
Self portrait
Born1860 (1860)
Died1948 (aged 87–88)
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting
MovementNeoclassicism
SpouseBruce MacKay
Feeding the Swans

Edith Hayllar (1860–1948) was a British artist born to James Hayllar,[1] an acclaimed Victorian artist known for his genre paintings. Edith Hayllar had four brothers and four sisters, of whom, Jessica Hayllar (1858–1940),[2] Mary Hayllar (1863–1950),[3] and Kate Hayllar (fl. 1883–1900), also became notable artists in their own right; all received their training from their father and exhibited at the Royal Academy.[4] Together, residing in an estate in Wallingford, England, all four girls followed a Victorian system of four to ten art classes a day to ensure proper mastery of basic art techniques such as proportions. In addition to their rigorous training schedule, the girls spent the rest of their time at the estate engaging in relaxing activities such as outdoor sports, plain air painting, and gardening. These leisurely domestic scenes became the subject of the sisters’ most renowned paintings.[5]

Of all the sisters, Jessica Hayllar and Edith Hayllar were the most well-known painters, both specializing in genre painting like their father. Edith Hayllar’s paintings, unlike other female artists at the time, did not challenge the terms of "feminine dependency" but rather played an integral role in shaping the representation of women and domesticity together by painting scenes of women in domestic interiors with their families. Hayllar’s painting style emphasized symmetry and orderliness, showing women running a well-organized household and clearly delineating a woman’s role at any given time in their lives.[5]

Summer Shower

Hayllar had paintings shown almost every year from the 1880s–1890s at the Institute for Oil Painters and Dudley’s Gallery. In the year 1881 she had her first piece exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London and then a year later, in 1882, another piece was shown in the Royal Academy of Arts. Of all her paintings, Edith Hayllar’s most famous is a piece, entitled A Summer Shower from 1883, showing a young man with a badminton racket courting a woman reclining in a chair next to him and was called "one of the most charming genre scenes of the nineteenth century."[6] She retired from painting when she married Rev. Bruce MacKay in approximately 1900.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Benezit Dictionary of Artists
  2. ↑ Works by Jessica Hayllar (Art Renewal Center)
  3. ↑ Mary Hayllar (Leicester Galleries)
  4. ↑ Hayllar, Family. "Exhibits at the Royal Academy". Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Edith Hayllar 1860 - 1948". The Clara database. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  6. ↑ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History (1st ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-313-28803-8. Edith Hayllar.
  7. ↑ Harris, Ann Sutherland; Nochlin, Linda. Women Artists: 1550–1950. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 1976, p. 258.
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