Studio: international art (81.1921)

"INTERIOR." BY
L. BERNARD HALL

and White and other illustrated news-
papers. He was an original member of
the New English Art Club, and was a
constant contributor to its exhibitions;
he also exhibited paintings, chiefly por-
traits, at the Royal Academy until 1892,
when he left England to take up the post
of Director of the National Gallery,
Melbourne, to which he had been
appointed in the previous December. In
1905 Mr. Hall returned to Europe and
made a short stay of four months, during
which he visited the chief art centres in

England and on the Continent in search
of paintings and sculpture for his Gallery.
His chief acquisitions were the noted Bent
Tree, Morning by Corot; Okehampton
Castle, a water-colour by Turner ; paint-
ings by Madox Brown, Holman Hunt,
George Clausen, Meissonier, Camille
Pissaro and Isabey; and sculpture by
Alfred Gilbert, Rodin and Barye. He
also arranged with Fremiet for a replica
of his Jeanne d'Arc, in the Place des
Pyramides, Paris; and the replica now
stands on the front terrace of the Gallery,

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