Henry Bryan Hall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British stipple engraver and portrait painter
Date of Birth: 11-May-1808
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 25-Apr-1884
Profession: visual artist
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Henry Bryan Hall
- Henry Bryan Hall (11 May 1808 London – 25 April 1884 Morrisania, New York), was an English stipple engraver and portrait painter.
- He was apprenticed to the engravers Benjamin Smith and Henry Meyer.
- Later he worked for Henry Thomas Ryall who was designated 'Portrait and Historical Engraver to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria'.
- Hall produced plates for Ryall's Eminent Conservative Statesmen (1837–38) and assisted in the engraving of seventy portraits for Ryall's plate of The Coronation of Queen Victoria after George Hayter (1838–42).
- Hall also engraved portraits of English Protestant martyrs for C.
- Birch (1839) and provided plates for John Wilson and Robert Chambers's The Land of Burns (1840), Finden's Gallery of Beauty (1841), John William Carleton's Sporting Sketch-Book (1842), and John Kitto's Gallery of Scripture Engravings (1846–49). After settling in New York in 1850, he founded the firm of H.
- B.
- Hall and Sons, which grew into a flourishing practice, engraving and publishing portraits.
- He produced images of celebrities from American colonial and revolutionary history for a private club in New York and for Philadelphia collectors.
- Hall's talents extended to portrait painting, especially in ivory miniatures work.
- He had painted Napoleon III while still in London, and, after moving to America, painted portraits of the artists Thomas Sully and Charles Loring Elliott. Henry Bryan Hall and Mary A.
- Denison had four sons and four daughters.
- Alfred, Alice, Charles, and Henry were accomplished engravers - of these, Henry Bryan Hall Jr.
- (fl.
- 1855-1900) fought in the American Civil War and enjoyed renown for his engraved portraits of its leading figures.
- Attributing engravings depicting American military and political celebrities to the father or son may be difficult.
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