Samuel Carter Hall
(1800-1889), Journal editor and writerSitter in 6 portraits
Samuel Carter Hall rose to prominence as the editor of the Art Journal and his wife Anna Maria was a popular novelist. Together they compiled A book of Memories of Great Men and Women of the Age from Personal Acquaintance (1871), described as a 'series of written portraits'. The couple's other project, putting up commemorative plaques on houses (before the official blue plaque scheme was initiated in 1867), reflects a more general growth in interest in personal history during the period.
Anna Maria Hall (née Fielding); Samuel Carter Hall
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s
NPG x17234
by Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860-1868
NPG Ax7516
by Henri Claudet
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1869
NPG Ax125089
Samuel Carter Hall; Anna Maria Hall (née Fielding)
by Unknown photographer
albumen print mounted on Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary card, oval, 1874
NPG x47396
by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
stipple engraving, published 1861
NPG D3198
by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
stipple engraving, published 1861
NPG D3199
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