Loughrigg Tarn, Westmorland, Lake District, Cumbria

A celebrated painter of historical genre, illustrator, glassmaker, enamallist and sculptor, Holiday is best known for his oil Dante and Beatrice, exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1883 and now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Influenced by Burne-Jones he designed stained glass for Powell & Sons, before establishing his own glassworks in Hampstead in 1890. This also produced mosaics, enamels and sacerdotal objects. As an illustrator, Holiday is best remembered for his illustration to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark. Loughrigg Tarn was a farm in the Lake District, where Holiday established a studio whilst his house in Hampstead was being built in 1873-1874.