Object Description
Frederick James Halnon (1881-1958)
Spring, bronze signed.
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1923.
A rare sculpture by Halnon it is possibly a companion to Peace from the same year.
Son of a lithographic plate maker Halnon showed early talent and was enrolled in the Goldsmiths Institute, London at the age of 11, he was later to take up a position there as modelling master.
He was a pupil of the sculptor Alfred Drury, in 1902–3, he won two national gold medals. He showed at RA, RI, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and elsewhere.
Alfred Drury nominated him for a fellowship of the Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1906, this was the same year that he exhibited a portrait plaque of Frederic Lord Leighton at the Royal Academy. He did not take up membership of the RSBS until 1938. His style continued the tradition of the New Sculpture movement having been a pupil of Drury and influenced by Lord Leighton.
A bust of a Bacchante is in the Royal Collection.