Frederick Hall (painter)

[3] Hall also drew caricatures and painted works that reflected the public taste for storytelling pictures.

[6] His later work exhibits a more mellow air and suggestions of the influence of George Clausen and H. H. La Thangue in the tints used.

[1] The Royal Cornwall Gazette, reviewing the 1886 exhibition by the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours, praised the picturesque quality of the houses and beach of his Cornish Village (1886), but criticised the inclusion of figures who lacked any raison d' être for being there.

[11] The Morning Post commended Hall's The Adversity (1889) for its eloquence and harmony of subject and landscape when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in May, 1889.

[12] His Twilight (1892) was noted by The Leeds Mercury for its poetic capture of the final gleams of an autumn day,[13] but his The Drinking Pool (1897) was criticised by the Glasgow Herald for lacking poetry,[14] although it conceded that it was cleverly painted.