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George Lothian Hall (2 April 1825 – 23 July 1888) was known as a watercolour artist. He has paintings in the Yale Center for British Art including 16 of
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. He was the son of John Hall of Liverpool and Mollance Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire. He was educated at Rugby and
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. In 1848-54 he traveled in Brazil. He began to paint on his return to London, where he exhibited 1856-78, especially at the
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. He retired to Wales in 1880, died there on 23 July 1888, and was buried in Llanfair P.G. Island Churchyard in the
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1825 births 1888 deaths British watercolourists 19th-century British painters {{UK-painter-19thC-stub