Oliver Hall RA RWS RE - 1940 Oil, Bridge Over a River

Description

Oliver Hall RA RWS RE - Original 1940 Oil. Artist, title and date inscribed on a label verso. (Circa. 1990) Inscribed and dated verso.On canvas on stretchers. Some craquelure to right sky area, otherwise in excellent condition for a work of this age.

Oliver Hall RA, RE, RWS (1869–1957) was a landscape painter in oil and watercolour and an etcher with a preference for rugged moorland and Spanish subjects. Hall studied at the R.C.A. from 1887–90, then attended Westminster and Lambeth Schools of Art evening classes alongside private art tuition with D. A. Williamson of Liverpool, working at Broughton-in-Furness. He travelled extensively in Spain, France and Italy. Hall began exhibiting etchings at the R.A. in 1890 and was a member of the R. W. S. He lived at Pulborough, Sussex, and later at Ulverston, Lancashire, where he died on the 5th December 1957. His son paints under the name of Claude Muncaster. Elected A.R.A: 23 Apr 1920. Elected R.A: 24 Feb 1927. Elected Senior R.A: 01 Jan 1937

Size

35.5 x 50.5cm (14" x 19.9")

Collection Information

From a collection of excellent watercolours, graphite drawings and oil paintings by Oliver Hall RA, RE, RWS (1869–1957), most are signed and all are unquestionably by the same hand.

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