Halkett, having studied art in Paris, returned to Scotland to become the art critic for the Edinburgh Evening News in 1876. His New Gleanings from Gladstone, the first of a series of booklets of political cartoons with a strong anti-Gladstone bias, was published in 1880.He cam to London in 1892 to take Francis Carruthers Gould's place at the Pall Mall Gazette but although his work was better drawnit did not have the same success because of its comparative lack of wit and the fierceness of his Tory sympathies. Both as editor of the Pall Mall Gazette and Editor of the Pall Mall Magazine he greatly improved the quality of the illustrations. In 1897, he was elected President of the Society of Illustrators, recently founded by Joseph Pennell. Halkett had a scholarly interest in Greek and Egyptian art and travelled extensively in the Middle East.
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