Harold Dalton-Hall

Harold Dalton-Hall was born in 1881 in Semiphore, South Australia. He died in 1946 in Liverpool, New South Wales, and was buried 3 Aug 1946 in Rookwood, Sydney. Harold married Sylvia Muriel Rubina SCHRADER on 22 Feb 1914 in Adelaide, South Australia.

He was a South Australian marine artist and model maker who worked in oil, watercolour, pen and ink. Dalton-Hall joined the South Australian Navy and worked on the colonial naval vessel Protector as a cabin boy in 1894. Dalton-Hall was was largely self-taught but undertook some training with Adelaide art teacher James Ashton. His paintings are distinctive in the use of rich colours and his attention to detail.