page_title: Richard Hall (painter)
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Hall (painter) / Life / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Young Girl with Sewing
context_page_description: Richard Hall was a Finnish-born painter who made his career in France, United States and Argentina. Hall is best known of his portraits, but also painted other genres such as still life paintings, in particular, flower motifs, intimate and homely sceneries, and landscape.
context_section_description: Richard Hall was born in Pori, Finland, as a son of the British businessman William R. Hall Tredennick and the Swiss Alexandrine Cornetz. His grandfather John Hall had emigrated to Finland in the early 1800s. The family also lived in Helsinki before moving to London in 1867. At the age of 15, Hall moved to Stockholm with his family and entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1881. He studied under Georg von Rosen, August Malmström, Josef Wilhelm Wallander and Mårten Eskil Winge, and took private lessons from Edvard Perséus. His year of graduation, Hall was awarded with the H. M. The King's Medal for winning an art competition announced by the Royal Academy. During his years in Stockholm, Hall became acquainted with artists like Richard Bergh, Oscar Björck, Bruno Liljefors and Anders Zorn.
caption: A Young Girl Sewing
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