生活

早年和培训

假日出生在伦敦。他表现出对艺术的早期资质和被给予的经验教训威廉托马斯窟。他参加了Leigh的艺术学院（其中一个同学是弗雷德里克·沃克），并在1855年，时年15岁，考上了皇家学院。通过他的友谊阿尔伯特·摩尔和西蒙所罗门，他被介绍给了艺术家但丁加百列罗塞蒂，爱德华伯恩-琼斯和威廉·莫里斯了“ 拉斐尔前派兄弟 ”。这个运动是要在他未来的艺术和政治生活的关键。

在同一年，1855年，假日旅行了到湖区。这是第一个多次到该地区，在那里他会经常假期很长一段时间的。虽然在湖区，他花了大量的时间素描这都在从不同的丘陵和山区看到的景色。他写道，“对于浓缩可爱之处，我什么都不知道，可与威斯特摩兰，坎伯兰和兰开夏郡的湖光山色相当比较。”

绘画

假期曾在两种油和水彩画。1858年，他的第一张照片，一幅山水画，是在皇家艺术学院展出，并立即卖出 - 从当年他的作品经常被显示在该学院和其他地方。其他图片包括：

• “加莱伯吉斯” （1859年）。
• “莱茵河少女”（1879年）。的主题是取自瓦格纳的歌剧莱茵的黄金。为了正确地可视化图片，仿照假日粘土3莱茵河的女子，并把他们安置在粘土“石头”一起过色的水蓝绿色的坦克。
• “但丁和比阿特丽斯”，在展出的格罗夫纳画廊于1883年在1881年，假期曾前往佛罗伦萨，以使研究了这张照片，并进行了细致的研究，以确保正确的建筑物和建筑特色出席。他还创造了一些建筑的粗糙粘土模型，设置了现场。图中的鸽子被画约翰Trivett Nettleship。
• “慈善”，一个彩色玻璃窗设计（1887，皇家学院），“歌舞女神”，“埃及艳后」，「睡眠」，「琵琶球员”，“菲莱神庙”“ 霍斯水”（1918 ，水彩）和其他许多人。

在假日爵士的工作室花了大量的时间爱德华·伯恩-琼斯，在这里的艺术家团体将举行会议，讨论，交流和游泳池的想法。伯恩-琼斯的影响，可在假日的工作可以看出。

彩绘玻璃

1861，假日公认的彩色玻璃窗设计师的工作鲍威尔的玻璃厂 -后伯恩-琼斯离开为之工作的莫里斯与公司在那里他的时间，他完成了300佣金，多为在美国的用户。他离开在1891年成立了自己的玻璃作品在汉普斯特德，生产的彩色玻璃，马赛克，搪瓷和圣职者对象。

假日的彩色玻璃作品遍布英国找到一些，但他最好是在教堂牛津大学伍斯特学院（c.1865），西敏寺（该伊桑巴德·金德姆·布鲁内尔纪念馆窗口，1868年），圣路加教堂肯特镇和圣玛利亚，帕丁顿（1869年）。

其他的工作和个人生活

假日也做了一些雕塑，于186年生产的一块名为吸引有利的关键利益“睡眠”。

假日工作的建筑师威廉·伯吉斯一段时间，包括提供墙面和天花板画伍斯特学院，牛津大学（1863年至1864年）和家具画作-包括“睡美人”在伯吉斯家的卧室床头塔之家本身。^[7] “睡美人”床现在是集合中塞西尔·希金斯美术馆和博物馆贝德福德。假日在英国全国公共收藏四级豆油的绘画作品。

在1864年10月，假日结婚凯瑟琳乌鸦和他们搬到贝斯沃特，伦敦。他的妻子是一个有才华的刺绣谁工作了莫里斯和公司，他们有一个女儿，雪梅。

1867年，假日参观了意大利的第一次，被他陈列有看到了文艺复兴时期的艺术家的独创性的启发。1871年他到锡兰的“日食观测队”的组成部分。他的天文图纸随后发表在国家新闻引起了极大的兴趣。

在他返回英格兰队在1872年，他委托建筑师瓦西钱普尼斯设计一个新的家在科臣，汉普斯特德，它被命名为“橡树屋” -在1888年，威廉·格莱斯顿自己是一个游客。

1874年一月，假日被委托刘易斯·卡罗尔说明猎鲨记。他保持朋友在他的生活的作者。

1907年，度假去了埃及，画了一系列关于古埃及主题的水彩画和插图。这些都是在“沃克的画廊”，伦敦展出，三月1908在1907-08，他委托放假回家的建设，贝蒂折叠在他最喜欢的部分湖区。

节日一直是社会主义与他的妻子凯特和女儿温妮在他的生活和一起，支持妇女参政运动。家庭是密切的熟人埃米琳·潘克赫斯特和她的女儿，并组织在湖区当地妇女参政会议。

假日15 1927年4月在伦敦去世，他的妻子，凯特两年后。他的侄子，吉尔伯特假日（1879年至1937年），弗雷德里克·假日爵士的儿子，也是一个艺术家谁也拥有英国收藏的绘画作品。

Life

Early years and training

Holiday was born in London. He showed an early aptitude for art and was given lessons by William Cave Thomas. He attended Leigh's art academy (where a fellow student was Frederick Walker) and in 1855, at the age of 15, was admitted to the Royal Academy. Through his friendship with Albert Moore and Simeon Solomonhe was introduced to the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris of the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood". This movement was to be pivotal in his future artistic and political life.

In that same year, 1855, Holiday made a journey to the Lake District. This was to be the first of many trips to the area, where he would often holiday for long periods of time. Whilst in the Lake District, he spent much of his time sketching the views which were to be seen from the various hills and mountains. He wrote, "For concentrated loveliness, I know nothing that can quite compare with the lakes and mountains of Westmorland, Cumberland and Lancashire."

Paintings

Holiday worked in both oils and watercolours. In 1858, his first picture, a landscape painting, was exhibited at the Royal Academy and immediately sold - from that year his work was frequently shown at the Academy and elsewhere. Other pictures include:

• "The Burgess of Calais" (1859).
• "The Rhine Maidens" (1879). The subject matter was taken from Wagner's opera Das Rheingold. In order to properly visualise the picture, Holiday modelled the 3 Rhine maidens in clay and placed them in a tank of blue-green tinted water together with clay "rocks".
• "Dante and Beatrice", exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1883. In 1881, Holiday had travelled to Florencein order to make studies for this picture, and carried out meticulous research to ensure that the correct buildings and architectural features were present. He also created rough clay models of some of the buildings to set the scene. The pigeons in the picture were painted by John Trivett Nettleship.
• "Charity", a stained glass window design (1887, Royal Academy), "Terpsichore", "Cleopatra", "Sleep", "The Lute player", "The Temple of Philae","Hawes Water" (1918, watercolour) and many others.

Holiday spent a lot of time at the studios of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, where groups of artists would meet to discuss, exchange and pool ideas. The influence of Burne-Jones can be seen in Holiday's work.

Stained Glass

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In 1861, Holiday accepted the job of stained glass window designer for Powell's Glass Works - after Burne-Jones had left to work for Morris & Co. During his time there he fulfilled over 300 commissions, mostly for customers in the USA. He left in 1891 to set up his own glass works in Hampstead, producing stained glass, mosaics, enamels and sacerdotal objects.

Holiday's stained glass work can be found all over Britain but some of his best is at the chapel ofWorcester College, Oxford (c.1865), Westminster Abbey (the Isambard Kingdom Brunel memorial window, 1868), St. Luke’s church in Kentish Town and St Mary Magdalene, Paddington (1869).

Other work and personal life

Holiday also did some sculpture, in 1861 producing a piece called "Sleep" which attracted favourable critical interest.

Holiday worked for architect William Burges for a period, including providing wall and ceiling paintings for Worcester College, Oxford (1863–64) and furniture paintings - including "Sleeping beauty" for the headboard in the bedroom of Burges's home The Tower Houseitself. The "Sleeping Beauty" bed is now in the collection of theCecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum. Holiday has four oil paintings in British national public collections.

In October 1864, Holiday married Catherine Raven and they moved toBayswater, London. His wife was a talented embroiderer who worked for Morris & Co. They had one daughter, Winifred.

In 1867, Holiday visited Italy for the first time and was inspired by the originality of the Renaissance artists he saw on display there. In 1871 he went to Ceylon as part of the " Eclipse Expedition". His astronomical drawings were subsequently published in the national press and attracted great interest.

On his return to England in 1872, he commissioned architect Basil Champneys to design a new family home in Branch Hill, Hampstead, which was named "Oak Tree House" - in 1888, William Gladstone himself was a visitor.

In January 1874, Holiday was commissioned by Lewis Carroll to illustrate The Hunting of the Snark. He remained friends with the author throughout his life.

In 1907, Holiday went to Egypt, painting a series of watercolours and illustrations on ancient Egyptian themes. These were exhibited at "Walker's Gallery", London, in March 1908. In 1907-08, he commissioned the building of a holiday home, Betty Fold in his favourite part of the Lake District.

Holiday had been a socialist throughout his life and, together with his wife Kate and daughter Winifred, supported the Suffragette movement. The family were close acquaintances of Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter, and had organised local suffragette meetings in the Lake District.

Holiday died on 15 April 1927 in London, two years after his wife, Kate. His nephew, Gilbert Holiday (1879–1937), son of Sir Frederick Holiday, was also an artist who also has paintings in British collections.