13 Facts About Ann Hall

Ann Hall was an American painter and miniaturist.

Ann Hall has been described as the most successful miniature painter active in early nineteenth-century New York, renowned for her engaging portraits, especially of children and young brides.

Ann Hall has been credited for inspiring a renaissance in the technique of painting miniatures on ivory in the United States.

Ann Hall visited the home of her mother's family in Newport, Rhode Island with an elder sister.

Ann Hall studied the old masters in the collection of her brother Charles Henry Ann Hall, a businessman who frequently traveled to Europe and acquired a group of watercolors, portrait miniatures, and oil paintings while abroad, including a series of copies after original compositions by Italian masters such as Tintoretto and Guido Reni.

Ann Hall lived with her sister Eliza Hall Ward, who was a painter of note, and Eliza's husband, Henry Ward, at their mansion at 23 Bond Street, although Hall made frequent trips to Boston.

Many of the New York City luminaries of the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s who visited Eliza and her husband posed for Ann Hall, expanding the artist's circle of patrons and supporters.

Ann Hall was not encouraged to take an active role in the governance of the institution and never appeared at Academy meetings except on one occasion when her presence was requested to meet a quorum.

Ann Hall had a studio on the top floor of her sister's house and mostly made portraits of women and children.

Ann Hall's clients were wealthy residents of New York who paid her up to $500 per commission.

Ann Hall's works were praised by critics of her day, including author and historian William Dunlap:.

Ann Hall never married and died on December 11,1863, in her sister's house, which became known as the Henry Ann Hall Ward Mansion during the lifetime of Eliza's son.

Ann Hall was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.