Artistic Interests
Despite Halse's career at the bank, where he eventually became Chief Clerk (or manager) in 1891, he was a prolific sculptor, producing about ninety works. He also published novels, verse romances, occasional poems and a manual of sculpture, A Guide to Modelling, which went into many editions and was still in print c.1920. His verse romance Sir Guy de Guy was a collaboration with his friend, Hablot Knight Browne (1815–1882) better known as Phiz and for his work illustrating Charles Dickens' novels. From 1857 until the early 1890s George exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and also at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts.
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