Edward Irvine Halliday:
Profile portrait of R.P. Longden, (Bobby Longdon) half-length, c.1927
Mounted (ref: 4258)

Signed

Charcoal, 11 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (30 x 38.5 cm.)

Tags: Edward Irvine Halliday charcoal men portraits

Provenance: The Artist's Estate; Private collection

This is probably a study for the figure in Halliday's Rome School Allegory of Hypnos for which Longden served as the model.

Halliday's portrait of Bobby Longden 1928,  helped establish Halliday's reputation as a portrait painter when it was shown at the RA in 1929. Bobby Longden, a classics scholar who later became headmaster of Wellington Collage, was at the British School during the same period as Halliday.