Fred Hall (1860-1948) – Zig-Zags on Exmoor

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Fred Hall biography

Frederick Hall (1860-1948) was an English artist praised for his impressionist landscapes, rustic scenes and portraits.

Life and work

Born in Stillington, Yorkshire, Hall studied art at the Lincoln School of Art between 1879 and 1881, before moving on to study under Charles Verlat in Antwerp.

He became a member of the Newlyn School in Cornwall at some time between 1883 and 1885 although the exact date is uncertain. He remained there, joining fellow ex-Lincoln School of Art student Frank Bramley, until 1898. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1886 onward, and at the Paris Salon, winning gold there in 1912. He also exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists on Suffolk Street, London, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, and the New English Art Club, but resigned from the latter in 1890.

Hall also drew caricatures and painted works that reflected the public taste for storytelling pictures. In 1898, he married Agnes Beryl Dodd, with whom he had a daughter.

His early work from the Newlyn School period exhibits a sympathy for the Newlyn School’s plein air practise and ideas concerning social realism. However, his style did not remain static and it continued to develop into a more impressionist mode. In the late 1880s, he gravitated towards landscapes, spending more time away from Newlyn, on the Exmoor coast in Porlock, where he attempted to establish a rival artists colony to that of Newlyn.

Available works by Modern British artists.

Fred Hall works in UK public collections.