Not to be confused with Edgar Alfred Holloway, illustrator of children's books. Edgar Holloway’s story is the stuff of which myths and artistic reputations are made. Born Robert Meyrick Edgar Holloway in May 1914 in Mexborough, near Doncaster, the son of a Yorkshire miner-turned-pictureframer, he left school at 14 to travel the countryside in pursuit of subjects for watercolors and etchings. Within a year, he was etching and printing copper plates to sell through his father’s shop.... By the age of 20, Holloway had staged two critically acclaimed solo exhibitions in London; his sitters for portraits included T. S. Eliot, Herbert Read and Stephen Spender, and his works were purchased by the British Museum, V&A and other leading collections. When Holloway was 10, his father enrolled him on a correspondence course; later, he purchased an etching press and organized sketching trips. With copper plates and needle, Holloway ventured into the countryside in search of commercial subjects: popular landmarks, cathedrals, castles and natural prospects. Back in the studio, he followed Ernest Lumsden’s seminal The Art of Etching (1924). In 1931, Lumsden purchased several etchings and invited the 17-year-old Holloway to become a member of the Society of Artist Printers in Edinburgh.... During a lifetime of study and self analysis,Holloway made more etched self portraits than any other British printmaker. With a consistency and conviction comparable to that of Rembrandt, he drew himself in various guises, using bodily gesture and facial expression to suggest different aspects of his personality or state of mind, and over time responded to the aging process. His first self portrait was a drypoint of 1931, aged 16, and his most recent, The Fedora, his 33rd, was etched in 2002, at the age of 88.... (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edgar-holloway-artist-best-known-for-his-etched-portraits-1021787.html) undefined

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