Speen artists painting sells for more than £18,000
Fred Hall’s Horses Watering sold for £18,750 at Christie’s in London on July 11.
Hall was born in Yorkshire in 1860 and after studying at the Lincoln School of Art, and under Charles Verlat in Antwerp, he earned a gold star at the Paris Salon in 1912 and later became an important member of the renowned Newlyn artistic colony in Cornwall, where his friends and colleagues included Stanhope Forbes and Frank Bramley.
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expert, Christopher Wood, said of Hall: “His pictures show identification with [Forbes and Bramley's] ideas about social realism and plein air painting, but Hall also pandered to the popular taste for storytelling pictures such as
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Mr Hall moved to Hill Cottage, Speen, from London in 1911 and remained there until his death in August 1948, aged 88. This year marks the 65th anniversary of his death.
Before the auction, Christie’s accurately forecast that the painting would sell for between £15,000 and £20,000 and is now one of Hall’s most valuable paintings.
The high sale price marks a significant rise from the days when Hall sold his works for less than £100 each when he was in his 20s.
