Frederick HALL
Born in Stillington, nr York on 6 February, 1860 (GRO), the son of a physician, he followed Frank BRAMLEY to the Lincoln School of Art (1879-81) and then to Verlat’s Academy in Antwerp (1882). His first exhibit at the RA was the following year.
Fred visited Newlyn first in 1884, settling there soon after and giving a Newlyn address in 1885. In the 1891 Census he was living at Tol-peden in Newlyn and describing himself as an artist-sculptor. At that stage he was painting in the style of La Thangue, Clausen, and the Newlyn painters. He finally departed Newlyn in 1897, where he had last been lodging at Belle Vue.
Hall married Agnes in 1898, a young woman of 24 who had been born in Burma. After a year in Liverpool, they moved to Dorking and then London, before settling in Berkshire in 1911. He lived at Speen, near Newbury (GRO) until his death at 88 years of age. [Photo likeness in Hardie 2009, p27]
media
Painter of landscapes, genre and figurative subjects; caricaturist and sculptor
works and access
Works include: An Orchard near Newlyn, Cornwall (1884); Home From the Fields (1886); In the Kitchen Garden (1887); The End of the Day (1891); The Drinking Pool (1898); The Green Door; Hoeing 'Neeps'; The Willowy Stream; Cooling Streams; The Edge of the Park (latter 5 c1926); Portrait of Josiah Wright (c1890) at RCM, Truro
Access to works: Penlee House, Penzance; RCM, Truro; Blackburn; Blackpool; Bradford; Bury; Leeds; Northampton; Warrington; //Geelong, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand
Fred Hall Scrapbooks are in the WCAA, complete with his caricatures of the Newlyn artists
exhibitions
Dowdeswells;
Notts Castle (12)
Whitechapel (2)
RA 1887-1895
Dunthorne's Gallery, London 1890
NAG November 1896, July 1926, December 1926, Summer 1929
NAG Loan (1958)
memberships
NEAC 1888
NSA
STISA 1936-48
references
Bednar
1891 Census Returns;
Fox & Greenacre (1979) Artists of the Newlyn School
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (pp202-3, col pl: In the Fields)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
NAG Loan (1958) Exhibition Catalogue
NAG sales record (repr Hardie 2009)
Newton et al (2005) Painting at the Edge
Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly: Oil Paintings in Public Ownership
Pyms (1984) Rural and Urban Images
Tovey (2000) GF Bradshaw & STISA (Appendix 3: Principal Members of STISA 1927-1960);
Tovey (2003) Creating a Splash
Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History