James Hall

  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and amateur photographer, he exhibited in South Australia between 1847 and 1859.
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painter and amateur photographer, showed six paintings in Adelaide’s 1847 Exhibition of Colonial Artists. His subjects ranged from biblical studies ( Our Saviour Bearing His Cross ) to landscapes ( Sunset on the Hills ). The latter were not appreciated by the South Australian Register : 'certain things with trees like cabbages and skies like lobster spawn are the prevailing features—between Chinese and Japanese productions, well worth all the shilling to see as curiosities’. A Party Gumming , exhibited simply as the work of 'Hall’, was possibly also his. James Hall exhibited James and his Dogs (medium unspecified) and a 'Daguerreotype Group’ with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1859.

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1992
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2011

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  • South Australian Society of Arts Third Annual Exhibition (None)
  • Exhibition of Pictures; the Works of Colonial Artists (None)
  • South Australian Society of Arts Third Annual Exhibition (None)