Oliver Hall was born in Tulse Hill, London, England on 29 March 1869 and studied at the National Art School in South Kensington in London from 1887 to 1890. He later attended evening classes at Lambeth School of Art and Westminster School of Art.

He subsequently worked as a painter and etcher. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London from 1890 to [posthumously] 1922.  He also exhibited at Agnew & Sons Gallery, Beaux Arts Gallery, Barbizon House, Carfax, Dowdeswell Gallery, Fine Art Society, Goupil Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, Leicester Galleries, New English Art Club, New Gallery , Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, and at Walker's Gallery in London; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; and at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours. A solo exhibition of his work was held at Dowdeswell Gallery in London in 1898.

Hall was elected an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE) in 1891; a full member of the Society (RE) in 1895; an Associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours (ARWS) in 1916; a full member of the Society (RWS) in 1919; an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1920; and a Royal Academician (RA) in 1927. He was also a member of the Society of Twenty-Five Painters.

His address was given as 74 Tulse Hill, Brixton, Surrey in 1890; 22 Hayter’s Road, Brixton, Surrey in 1895 and 1897; Egdean, Fittleworth, Sussex in 1909 and1913; Sutton, Pulborough, Sussex in 1915 and 1946; “Bayview”, Bardsea, Ulveston, Lancashire in 1947 and 1957.  He died in Ulverston, Lancashire on 5 December 1957.

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