Kate Hayllar
(Beatrice) Kate Hayllar (1 September 1864 – 1959) was a British painter and nurse. She was the youngest daughter of James Hayllar, a prominent Victorian artist, and Ellen Hayllar. Kate had four sisters and brothers, among whom Jessica Hayllar, Edith Hayllar and Mary Hayllar also became accomplished artists.[1]
Life
Kate Hayllar was born in Mecklenburgh Square, but spent most of her childhood at the family house, Castle Priory, in Wallingford on the River Thames in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), where she and her sisters received training in art from their father.[2]
The house and its surroundings provided inspiration for the majority of her paintings, as well as those of her sisters.
When her mother died in 1900, Kate stopped painting and devoted herself to nursing. She moved to Bournemouth with her father and sister Jessica, and later, her sister Mary. She never married and devoted herself to caring for her family and friends.[3]
She died in 1959 at the age of 95.[4]
Work
Kate Hayllar focused her work on small and intensely observed flower and still life subjects. Before her early retirement as a professional artist, her considerable talent was recognised by her success at exhibiting her work. She had twelve works displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1885 to 1898[5] (the first of these, The Old Brocaded Gown, was bought by the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra wife of King Edward VII) and fifteen at the Royal Society of British Artists from 1883 to 1885.[6] She also exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and the Arthur Tooth & Sons Gallery.[7][8]
Queen Alexandra also bought a drawing, "Tommy's Orange", which Hayllar had exhibited with the Society of British Artists in 1883.[9]
Unlike her older sisters Jessica, Edith, and Mary, who mostly painted interior scenes of Castle Priory, Kate focused on still-lifes, often incorporating floral elements and exotic souvenirs from foreign lands. Her surviving works include Still life with a Canton famille rose teapot and camellias and A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever.[10][11] The latter work was sold by Christie's in 2003 from the Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art for GB£50,190 (equivalent to £Error when using {{Inflation}}: |index=UK (parameter 1) not a recognized index. in 2018).
References
- ↑ Gray, Sara (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Search this book on
- ↑ Hayllar, Mary Gabrielle. "Framing the Hayllar Sisters: a multi-genre biography of four English Victorian painters".
- ↑ The Fine Art Society 2014. Exhibition Catalogue. Edinburgh: Bourne Fine Art; London: The Fine Art Society, 2014. No. 17.
- ↑ "Netherland Institute for art History".
- ↑ Hayllar, Kate. "Exhibits at the Royal Academy". Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ↑ Johnson, Jane (1987). Works Exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists 1824–1893 and The New English Art Club 1888–1917. An Antique Collectors' Club Research Project. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 217. ISBN 0-902028-35-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Wood, Christopher (1995). Victorian Painters. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 235. ISBN 1-85149-171-6. Search this book on
- ↑ J Johnson; A Greutzner (2008). British Artists 1880–1940. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-902028-36-4. Search this book on
- ↑ "The Court". Illustrated London News. 5 May 1883. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
The Princesses, among other art visits, inspected the Dudley Gallery, the Gallery of the Society of Fine Arts, Mr. Frank Miles’s Exhibition, the Goupil Gallery, the French Gallery of Pictures, in Pall-mall, and the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk-street, at which last the Princess of Wales purchased a drawing by Miss Kate Hayllar, entitled 'Tommy’s Orange.'
- ↑ Hayllar, Kate. "Still life with a Canton famille rose teapot and camellias". Christie's Auction. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ↑ Hayllar, Kate. "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever". Christie's Auction. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
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