John Hall (artist)

He engraved a number of portraits, including one of Richard Brinsley Sheridan painted by Joshua Reynolds.

This included illustrations of scenes, created by Hall himself, and portraits of actors performing well-known roles.

[2] Hall was also a painter, though he was typically a copyist, working in a stiff old-fashioned style.

A portrait of Hall by Gilbert Stuart depicts him with his engraving of Benjamin West's painting Penn's Treaty with the Indians.

This was published by John Boydell in June 1775, with the image reversed, under the longer title William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pennsylvania in North America, 1681.