page_title: Richard Hall (painter)
section_title: In France and the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Hall (painter) / Life / In France and the United States
caption_attribution_description: English: A Good Listener
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: After his graduation, Hall moved to Paris, where he shared a studio with Richard Bergh and studied under Jean-Paul Laurens, Raphaël Collin and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. In Paris, he also met Finnish artists like Albert Edelfelt and Ville Vallgren. Hall started his career as a genre painter, but was soon specialized in portraits of nobilities and celebrities. Since 1883, Hall was annually represented at the Paris salon exhibition, and had his works on display at the gallery of Georges Petit.
  Hall got married with his cousin Julia Berrigau Cornetz in 1881 and had two children. The family lived for six years in Bretagne, until Julia died in 1891. After his wife's death, Hall spent eight months in a Trappist order in Nantes. In the early 1900s, Hall spent summers in the Baltic island of Öland, where he met the baroness Anna von Mühlenfels, who became Hall's second wife in 1906. In 1902, the American businessman William Kissam Vanderbilt invited Hall to New York City. He painted members of the Vanderbilt family and other representatives of New York's upper class.
  In 1903 and 1907, Hall had an exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, and in 1904 and 1905 in the Royal Academy in London.In his native Finland, Hall had his only exhibition in 1909 at the House of Nobility in Helsinki. However, Hall visited the country regularly to meet his parents.
caption: A Good Listener
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