Signed, dated & inscribed 1881 r.m. "A mon chères cousines de la part de leur cousin affecteux" Signed and annotated "Etude Paris" 1881 u.l. Richard Hall was a Finnish-born and made his career in France,United States and Argentina. Hall is best known of his portraits, but also painted other genres such as still life paintings, in particular, flower motifs, intimate and homely sceneries, and landscape. In 1902, the American businessman William Kissam Vanderbil invited Hall to New York City. He painted members of the Vanderbilt family and other representatives of New York's upper class. In 1903 and 1907, Hall had an exhibition at the Knoedler Gallery in New York, and in 1904 and 1905 in Royal Academy in London. Hall visited the country regularly to meet his parents but had only exhibition in Helsinki at the House of Nobility in 1909.
