marriage, survived him. Hall was a tall, distinguished man; courteous with strong convictions. He was extremely conservative in almost everything from his art to his politics. The only exception was his advocacy of the Baconian theory, afterwards modified to a firm conviction that whether Bacon had any hand in the plays or not, the author was not the man from Stratford. In other matters his appeal was to tradition and the expert. Hall was an honest man, he could see no merit in the so-called modern school of painting and he said so. Its followers seemed to him to violate the first principles of art. His own paintings were carefully planned and always well drawn. His colour was not always so good, and this was especially apparent in some of his earlier nudes. The examples of his work in the Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide galleries show him to have been a conscientious and excellent artist. As a teacher his somewhat cold manner, which really came from a kind of shyness, sometimes repelled his pupils in his earlier days, but he mellowed as he grew older. There has been much difference of opinion as to the value of his methods of teaching, but his long roll of distinguished pupils suggests that his insistence on sincerity, truth and good drawing, must have been of great value to them. In any case, Hall's personality was a strong influence for the good of art in his time. Death and burial He died in London on 14 February 1935 and was buried at Golders Green cemetery. Among those in attendance were Australian artists George Bell, I.M. Cohen, James Quinn, Bess Tait and Marion Jones as well as British sculptors Gilbert Bayes and Lady Hilton Young. References Ann E. Galbally, 'Hall, Lindsay Bernard (1859 - 1935)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, MUP, 1983, pp 164–165. Retrieved 19 January 2009 External links Bernard Hall Papers at the National Gallery of Australia Research Library 1859 births 1935 deaths Australian people of English descent 19th-century Australian painters 20th-century Australian painters Artists from Liverpool Artists from Melbourne 19th-century English painters Archibald Prize finalists Australian art teachers Australian portrait painters Australian male painters 19th-century Australian male artists 20th-century Australian male artists 19th-century English male artists English male painters