Bolton Royd, Manningham.
Edward Healey (1842-1916) was a Bradford painter of land, coastal and architectural subjects. He was an architect in partnership in Bradford, but pursued an art career parallel to his profession. He was able to put his architectural training to good use in a book he authored and illustrated: ‘A series of picturesque views of castles and country houses in Yorkshire, principally in the northern division of the West Riding’. Published by Thomas Shields, Bradford, 1885 (example above and below).
Daisy Bank, Heaton.
Edward was a keen supporter of the Yorkshire Union of Artists (YUA) and exhibited work with them in the region. He served on the YUA Council from 1895 until his death.
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, featured a landscape painting by him in an exhibition of work by local artists, in 1951. He was the father of the artist, Mary Healey (see below).
Mary Healey (1885-1923) daughter of Edward Healey, and born in Bradford, was an oil and watercolour landscape and portrait painter. Her main art training was at the Slade School of Art in London, and, after working as a portrait artist in Britain, she emigrated in 1919 with a brother to Canada, to live in London, Ontario.
Study of a Girl’s Head. Image: Museum/London, Ontario, Canada.
There she quickly became an integral part of the art scene until her promising Canadian career was cut short by an early death. The Museum/London (Canada) has eleven of her works in their permanent collection.
The Elm c.1920. Image: Museum/London, Ontario, Canada.
Cartwright Hall, Bradford, showed four of her works at their exhibition of local artists in 1951, which included an oil portrait and some watercolour views of Canada. The portrait, ‘William Farnish’, shown below, is now in the Bradford Museums and Galleries permanent collection.
William Farnish. Image: Bradford Museums and Galleries/Art UK
See other works by Mary Healey at Museum/London