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John James Halls

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Halls exhibited in 1798 'Fingal assaulting the Spirit of Loda,' in 1799 'Zephyr and Aurora,' and in 1800 'Creon finding Hæmon and Antigone in the Cave.' Subsequently he chiefly devoted himself to portrait-painting, but he occasionally attempted ambitious subjects, like 'Lot's Wife' (1802), 'Hero and
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in 1813) of 'Christ raising the Daughter of Jairus,' won a premium, of two hundred guineas; it went to the church of St. Peter at Colchester. His 'A Witch—"but in a sieve I'll thither sail" from Macbeth' was engraved in
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in 1791, and about 1797 settled as a professional artist in London. In 1802 he accompanied
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by Halls, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1819, went to the National Portrait gallery.
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and others to Paris to study the collections brought together by Napoleon.
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Leander' (1808), and 'Danae' (1811). A large picture (exhibited at the
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as Richard III by Halls was also engraved by Turner. A portrait of
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Colchester
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Royal Academy
Henry Fuseli

British Institution
mezzotint
Charles Turner
Charles Kean
Lord Denman
Lichfield Cathedral
Henry Salt
Nathaniel Pearce
Samuel Freeman
"Halls, John James" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/12022
UK public library membership
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Halls, John James
Dictionary of National Biography
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1776 births
1853 deaths
19th-century English painters
English male painters
Artists from Colchester
19th-century English male artists

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