Among his portrait subjects was Queen Elizabeth II.
It seems that many British organizations desired having a portrait of her. Not just a photograph, but a real painting made with oil paints. The Queen had many duties, and surely could not find time to pose for every requested portrait. So Halliday, for example, painted several portraits of her posed the same, but attired differently and with different backgrounds. I suppose other artists did the same thing, though I wasn't aware of this until I was collecting a set of images of Halliday's works.
Locations noted following Elizabeth's name are organizations that commissioned the paintings or where they are to be found.
Nice job: note the light, shadows and reflected light.
Phillip was only a Royal Navy lieutenant in those days. Later he became an Admiral of the Fleet.
Her head seems a trifle large compared to her arms and hands.
Here is an early version of the pose that Halliday kept using. Possibly this was made during an actual sitting.
Same costume as in the previous image. Same pose, of course.
Same pose, but the rest differs. Note that this was painted nine years later.
Many 1957 portrait details are carried over to this 1966 work.
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