Fred Hall - Artist Info

About Fred Hall

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Frederick Hall
  • Biography

    Frederick Hall, known by most as simply Fred Hall, is perhaps best known as a member of the Newlyn School of painters. Having studied at Lincoln School of Art between 1879 and 1881, he moved to Cornwall in the early 1880s to paint alongside fellow ex-Lincoln student, Frank Bramley, Stanhope Forbes and others. He remained until 1898.

    His Newlyn works combine the practice of working outside, en plein air, with an interest in social realism, particularly the depiction of rural life. However, as time went on, his style became more overtly impressionistic and this later group of works demonstrates his more mature style.

    In 1911, Hall came to live in Speen, near Newbury where he remained un...

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