Artist

Henry George Alexander Holiday

Henry George Alexander Holiday is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Holiday painted delicate watercolours of the Lake District, where open-air sketching was a common pastime after the railway arrived in 1846. In the 1850s–60s he layered translucent washes to capture the light on Hawes Water’s long, quiet slopes. The work itself is a study in greens and blues, no figures, just the water and distant fells. Tap Hawes Water to see how the paper’s grain catches the sun.

Works by Henry George Alexander Holiday

Collections represented

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