London born, Ballarat based artist and teacher. In the Creswick Grammar School’s 1882 annual report the headmaster, Sammuel Fiddian, reported on the appointment of Hall as art teacher:
'Impressed with the importance of a knowledge of drawing, I have long wished to include it in our regular routine. This year I have been able to accomplish my wish. I have secured the services of Mr. H. J. Hall, of Ballarat, an able teacher; under whom every pupil of the grammar school is instructed in this most useful as well as elegant accomplishment; and I am glad to say that, with a few exceptions, the pupils manifest a qualifying interest in the study.’
Hall was drawing teacher at Creswick Grammar School, Victoria, from 1882 to the mid-1880s. His most famous student there was Percy Lindsay (1870-1952), who under his guidance became a talented art student, receiving many prizes for drawing. Lindsay later became a significant landscape painter, book illustrator and black and white artist who contributed to the Bulletin. From 1885 to 1912 Hall was a teacher in technical and artistic drawing at the Ballarat School of Mines, Victoria.
- Writers:
- Clifford-Smith, Silas
- Date written:
- 2011
- Last updated:
- 2011
