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John Hall

Also known as: John Hall; primary name: Hall, John
Details: individual; printmaker; British; Male
Life dates: 1739-1797
Address: 1767, parish of St. Luke 1763, Hervy-court in the Strand opposite the New Exchange Buildings 1764-68, at Mr Dubedat's, the corner of Bentinck Buildings, Berwick Street 1769, St James 1769, 1776, Great Cheney-Walk, Chelsea 1781 Berwick Street, Soho
Biography: Line engraver, pupil of Ravenet according to Raimbach; 1756 won a 5 gn. premium from the Society of Arts for a drawing by an artist aged under 17; 1761, won a 21 gn. premium for engraving human figures; worked at the Chelsea porcelain manufactory; by 1767, master in the parish of St Luke; apprentices Charles Wood 1767, Joseph Thornthwaite 1769, Burnet Reading 1770; 1785 succeeded Woollett as historical engraver to George III; plates sold by Leigh & Sotheby, July 1799 (copy of catalogue in P&D, ScA.1.1/31). According to Abraham Raimbach. 'Gentlemanly in his habits and connexions and somewhat disposed to extravagance in dress' (p. 6); married Mary de Gilles, daughter of the porcelain painter James Giles; his son George William Hall (1770-1843) became Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Bibliography: 'Memoirs and recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach', ed. M. T. S. Raimbach (1843) (Raimbach was apprenticed to Hall) Information (including addresses) from Timothy Clayton

315 related objects

album; print

Title: Framlingham Castle, Suffolk |
Museum number: 1853,0112.519 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1772

album; print

Title: Framlingham Castle, Suffolk |
Museum number: 1853,0112.520 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallPublished by:S Hooper |
Production date: 1785

book of prints; print

Museum number: K,28.1-51 |
Producer name: Published by:John Bell, the publisherPrint made by:Whitchurch |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

drawing

Museum number: 1881,0312.113 |
Producer name: Drawn by:AnonymousAfter:John Hall |
Production date: 1775

love token

Museum number: J.3284 |
Production date: 18thC 1775 |
Production place: Issued in:British IslesMinted in:London (England)

print

Title: Bishop Stillingfleet |
Museum number: P,7.73 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Sir Peter Lely |
Production date: 1770-1800

print

Title: Timon of Athens The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: 1871,0610.807 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1771

print

Museum number: 1856,0209.67 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1784

print

Museum number: 1930,0414.115 |
Producer name: BIOG40123 Print made by:Robert Newton |
Production date: 1820-1830

print

Title: Malvieu. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2426 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1790

print; book-illustration

Museum number: P,8.183 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1786

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,0520.842 |
Producer name: After:John Hamilton MortimerPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1771-1773

print; frontispiece

Title: John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S. |
Museum number: 1848,1125.326 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:John Flaxman |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: A woman of Eaoo |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.164 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1785

print; book-illustration

Title: Cowley |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1163 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Sir Peter Lely |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Museum number: P,7.72 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Sir Peter Lely |
Production date: 1770-1800

print

Title: Double Canoe of the Friendly Islands |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.167 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 19thC(early)

print

Museum number: Q,1.96 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Christian Friedrich Zincke |
Production date: 1779

print; book-illustration

Title: Blackmore |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1159 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1779-1783

print; book-illustration

Title: Le Comte Antoine Hamilton |
Museum number: G,4.68 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1772

print

Title: The Prince & Princess of Brunswick |
Museum number: 1982,U.3198 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale |
Production date: 1764

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.683-684 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:Joseph Collyer |
Production date: 1788

print

Title: William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester. |
Museum number: Q,3.24 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:William Hoare of Bath |
Production date: 1784

print

Title: Honorable Mr Justice Blackstone |
Museum number: Q,3.59 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1778

print

Title: Samuel Johnson L.L.D. |
Museum number: 1838,0714.29 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: John Hall |
Museum number: 1943,0410.926 |
Producer name: BIOG38250 Print made by:Joseph Karel de Meulemeester |
Production date: 1786-1836

print; frontispiece

Museum number: P,3.184 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Cornelius Johnson |
Production date: 1766

print

Title: George Colman, Esq. |
Museum number: 1839,1012.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1787

print

Title: Punishment of the Tcha |
Museum number: 1871,0812.686 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:William Alexander |
Production date: 1796

print

Title: The Natche, a Ceramony in Honour of the King's Son, in Tongataboo |
Museum number: 1957,0705.37 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:Samuel Middiman |
Production date: 1784

print

Museum number: 1857,0613.254 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Henry Edridge |
Production date: 1790-1820

print

Title: George Colman, Esq. |
Museum number: K,58.198 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1787

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.383-384 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1783

print

Title: A woman of Eaoo |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.165 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1785

print

Title: Dn Carlos Tercero Rey de Espana y de las Indias |
Museum number: 1849,1208.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Camillo Paderni |
Production date: 1755-1780

print

Museum number: 1981,0620.68 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Henry Edridge |
Production date: 1790-1820

print

Museum number: 1852,0705.177 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:John Townsend |
Production date: 1782

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1867,1214.301 |
Producer name: After:John Hamilton MortimerPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1771-1773

print; book-illustration

Title: Simon van Slingeland |
Museum number: 1868,0808.2558 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1767-1797

print

Title: Timon of Athens The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: 1871,0610.806 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1771

print

Title: Admiral Keppel |
Museum number: 1853,0112.1689 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1753-1800

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.1294 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1799

print

Title: Samuel Johnson L.L.D. |
Museum number: K,61.50 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1787

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,0520.912 |
Producer name: After:John Hamilton MortimerPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1771-1773

print

Title: Honorable Mr Justice Blackstone |
Museum number: 1911,0412.131 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Thomas Gainsborough |
Production date: 1778

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1963,1109.11.1-50 |
Producer name: Print made by:Mary TurnerAfter:Sir Francis Chantrey |
Production date: 1823

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.849-850 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1797

print

Title: The Natche, a ceremony in honour of the King's son, in Tongataboo |
Museum number: Oc2006,Prt.183 |
Producer name: After:John WebberPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1785

print; book-illustration

Title: Otway |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1173 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Title: John Whitehurst F.R.S. |
Museum number: Q,2.123 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:John Wright |
Production date: 1786

print; book-illustration

Title: Dyer |
Museum number: 1900,1231.1166 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Production date: 1779-1781

print

Museum number: 1876,1209.324 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1770-1795

print; trade-card

Museum number: Banks,69.27 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,7.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:John Hall

print; trade-card

Museum number: Banks,69.26 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1820

print

Title: The Battle of the Boyne |
Museum number: S,1.62 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1779-1781

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1881,0108.172 |
Producer name: After:John Hamilton MortimerPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1771-1773

print

Museum number: 1978,U.713 |
Producer name: After:John KitchingmanPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1776

print

Title: Oliver Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament Cromwell |
Museum number: 1838,1110.16 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1789

print

Title: Trinity College, Cambridge |
Museum number: 1981,U.686 |
Producer name: Published by:J HattPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 19th century |
Production place: Published in:Cambridge (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Coriolanus Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5524 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Philip James de Loutherbourg |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Henry IV. King of France and Navarre |
Museum number: 1865,1111.49 |
Producer name: After:Peter Paul RubensPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Houghton Gallery |
Museum number: 1862,0517.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Carlo Maratti |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Timon of Athens The Most Capital Paintings in England |
Museum number: 1877,0609.1733 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; frontispiece

Museum number: 1917,1208.1223 |
Producer name: After:Philip James de LoutherbourgPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1784 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The life of William Cobbet. No 8. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13687 |
Producer name: BIOG28991 Print made by:James Gillray |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Battle of the Boyne |
Museum number: S,1.63 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: King Henry 4th Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5501 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Philip James de Loutherbourg |
Production date: 1760-1797 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1849,0721.636-639 |
Producer name: After:Thomas StothardPrint made by:Joseph Collyer |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven Macklin's Bible |
Museum number: 1843,0513.46 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1795 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pensylvania in North America |
Museum number: 1838,1110.9 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration; title-page

Title: Bell's British Theatre |
Museum number: 1867,0309.1436 |
Producer name: After:John Hamilton MortimerPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1943,0410.2518 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Ann Foster |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Henry IV. |
Museum number: 1868,0822.4047 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallIntermediary draughtsman:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1788 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: David Garrick Esq. |
Museum number: Ee,3.39 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Tender Husband Bell's British Theatre |
Museum number: 1875,0710.3671 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Robert Smirke |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Honourable Sir Wm. Blackstone Knight |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1475 |
Producer name: After:Thomas GainsboroughPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Wm Shakespeare at the age of 40 Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1893,0731.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallPublished by:John Bell, the publisher |
Production date: 1772 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1980,U.1196 |
Producer name: After:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1774 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pensylvania in North America |
Museum number: S,1.64 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: John Scott Esq |
Museum number: 1875,0814.734 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:John Townsend |
Production date: 1782 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: William Shakespeare |
Museum number: P,1.253 |
Producer name: BIOG30389 Print made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1770-1800 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Cymbeline Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5557 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Edward Francis Burney |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; title-page

Museum number: K,65.168 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Mauritius Lowe |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Charles the 2nd Landing on the Beach at Dover |
Museum number: 1843,0513.387 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Sharp |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Richard III Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5516 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:William Hamilton |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Charles the 2nd Landing on the Beach at Dover |
Museum number: 1838,1110.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:William WoollettPrint made by:William Sharp |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Surrender of Calais to King Edward III |
Museum number: Y,4.148 |
Producer name: After:Edward EdwardsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1776 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: David Garrick Esq. |
Museum number: Ee,5.103 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Cymbeline Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5554 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Edward Francis Burney |
Production date: 1786 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Penn's Treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province of Pensylvania in North America |
Museum number: 1838,0621.5 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Benjamin West |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Sketches taken at print sales |
Museum number: 1876,1209.612 |
Producer name: After:Paul SandbyPublished by:Sylvester Harding |
Production date: 1798 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: David Garrick Esq. |
Museum number: Ee,3.41 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter Macklin's Bible |
Museum number: 1859,0312.221 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:John Opie |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: King Charles the 2nd Landing on the Beach at Dover |
Museum number: 1838,1110.10 |
Producer name: Print made by:William SharpPrint made by:William Woollett |
Production date: 1789 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Edward Gibbon, Esqr. |
Museum number: Aa,7.54 |
Producer name: After:Sir Joshua ReynoldsPrint made by:John Hall |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: David Garrick Esq. |
Museum number: Ee,5.11 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Nathaniel Dance |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The life of William Cobbet. No 6. |
Museum number: 1851,0901.1280 |
Producer name: Print made by:James GillrayPublished by:Hannah Humphrey |
Production date: 1809 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; frontispiece

Title: Wm Shakespeare at the age of 40 Bell's Shakespeare |
Museum number: 1893,0731.106 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallPublished by:John Bell, the publisher |
Production date: 1772 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The Right Honorable Isaac Barre |
Museum number: 1865,0114.172 |
Producer name: Print made by:John HallAfter:Charles Gilbert Stuart |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

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