Nicholas Hall

Nicholas Hall We are an art gallery specializing in Old Master paintings. Discover 700 years of European art to buy and sell.

With over 40 years of experience in sourcing and selling some of the finest Old Master paintings, sculpture and drawings on the market, Nicholas Hall is among the most trusted and reputable dealers of classical European art. Privacy and discretion is paramount to our business and our appointment-only modus operandi gives you the confidence to sell, maintain and grow your collction with us.

Seeing eye to eye with these familiar faces brings back memories of A*o Tavitian, the man behind this formidable collect...
06/12/2026

Seeing eye to eye with these familiar faces brings back memories of A*o Tavitian, the man behind this formidable collection of 300 or so works, with a core collection of portraits, recently donated to the The Clark . A*o never shied away from anonymity when it would have been more common if not easier, for collectors of his calibre, to go off a checklist of names for their trophy hunt. What makes his collection so distinctive is his deep interest in stories surrounding the human experience and gift for empathy with people of all walks of life — which comes across even if one has never met him in person.

Originally painted for a hospital that treated patients with ‘Saint Anthony’s Fire’, a disease that caused blistering ga...
06/03/2026

Originally painted for a hospital that treated patients with ‘Saint Anthony’s Fire’, a disease that caused blistering gangrene and hallucination, the Isenheim Altarpiece continued to heal a different trauma in the 20th century. From Joris-Karl Hausman’s ‘rediscovery’ of Grünewald around 1900 to W.G. Sebald’s meditations more recently, few artists have been so tied to literature.

But despair is only one half of the story. The trippy flamboyance of the layer beneath, with the Concert of Angles and Nativity, flanked by a sultry Virgin Annunciate and the risen Christ in all his glory, can be even more moving. For my young child that was certainly the case. He wrote in his notebook: ‘the best part is the people visiting, including the children with their strawberry halos and Mary alight with happiness, which she spreads and makes everything and everyone rainbow.’

Nature morte by Jacques Linard, Louise Moillon, Upper Rhein school ca. 1470, Sebastian Stoskopff, French School early 17...
05/28/2026

Nature morte

by Jacques Linard, Louise Moillon, Upper Rhein school ca. 1470, Sebastian Stoskopff, French School early 17th century, attributed to Jan Willemszoon van der Wilde, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Chardin, and Hans Memling

From Bouwerij to Breukelen, Holland tunnel to Haarlem, we are constantly reminded that New York was Niewe Amsterdam once...
05/19/2026

From Bouwerij to Breukelen, Holland tunnel to Haarlem, we are constantly reminded that New York was Niewe Amsterdam once upon a time. The Dutch love of art collecting is certainly felt this week in the city. In this quaint exhibition of Dutch 17th century art almost all the works come from three prominent collections from New York and Boston, acquired in the last 40 years.

Still lifes hold a special place in the works of Francisco de Zurbarán and more so, of his son Juan, who is deservedly b...
05/12/2026

Still lifes hold a special place in the works of Francisco de Zurbarán and more so, of his son Juan, who is deservedly being recognized in the new Zurbarán exhibition at the . Juan died at the age of 29 but turned his father’s sporadic interest into a veritable speciality. It is a rare opportunity to see the father and son’s works side by side as there are only 20 or so works ascribed to the latter, all independent still lifes. They are found in collections as far reaching as Kiev, Mänttä (photo 9 ) and Sydney — which we had discovered in a small auction in Madrid in 2022 (last photo) and hoped to see again here.

Still lifes hold a special place in the works of Francisco de Zurbarán and more so, of his son Juan, who is deservedly b...
05/12/2026

Still lifes hold a special place in the works of Francisco de Zurbarán and more so, of his son Juan, who is deservedly being recognized in the new Zurbarán exhibition at the . Juan died at the age of 29 but turned his father’s sporadic interest into a veritable speciality. It is a rare opportunity to see the father and son’s works side by side as there are only 20 or so works ascribed to the latter, all independent still lifes. They are found in collections as far reaching as Kiev, Mänttä (photo 8 ) and Sydney — which we had discovered in a small auction in Madrid in 2022 (last photo) and hoped to see again here.

Far from the maddening crowds of the Venice Biennale is the rustic island of Torcello, one of the earliest settlement in...
05/07/2026

Far from the maddening crowds of the Venice Biennale is the rustic island of Torcello, one of the earliest settlement in the Venetian lagoons. Its main church, the Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, was the primary place of worship before the construction of St Marks in 976. The resplendent mosaics inside, dating from the 12th and 13th centuries, have been recently restored by with Jon Landau as the main benefactor. We’re thrilled that Jon will be the star of our upcoming event, ‘Hungry for Art’ – a conversation with the celebrated Music producer, Art collector and Philanthropist with a focus on his long love affair with Venice.

With his recognizably frenzied brushstrokes Alessandro Magnasco depicted the arrival of galley slaves, dragged by their ...
04/27/2026

With his recognizably frenzied brushstrokes Alessandro Magnasco depicted the arrival of galley slaves, dragged by their chains and forcibly shaved, in his hometown Port of Genoa — a major hub of the Mediterranean slave trade. To me, this quixotic canvas anchors the current ‘Esclaves en Méditerranée’ exhibition, a subject I’ve noticed gaining traction in French and Italian museums in recent years. Among the 2 million or so Christians and Muslims slaves traded in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, perhaps the best known is Cervantes, who escaped his captors in Algeria, turning his own account of enslavement into one of the greatest modern European novels, Don Quixote. Also on view are notable works by Charles le Brun, Johannes Lingelbach, and a Cornelis de Wael painting of galley slaves sharing a meal (last photo), which was exhibited in our ‘Beyond the Fringe’ exhibition last year.

Even on a large scale, the miniaturist tendency of Fra Angelico was never lost: in the gilded sunbursts, the speckled fi...
04/07/2026

Even on a large scale, the miniaturist tendency of Fra Angelico was never lost: in the gilded sunbursts, the speckled fictive marbles, the shimmering fabrics… Earlier this year I caught the tail end of his retrospective, the biggest and most comprehensive gathering of his works in living memory. A painter exclusively of religious subjects, sometimes underestimated on account of his seraphic sweetness, sparkling palette and flawless golden decoration, Angelico won so many of us over with his emotional range, compositional sophistication and search for spiritual truth — to the point where he was beatified, in 1982, despite not having performed a single miracle. One itches to see how his preparatory drawings would look, but perhaps the panel from Yale (last photo) scrubbed down by overzealous conservation offers a clue.

This is not the racy lunch in bed it appears. Look closely and you will realize the gravity of this scene, as it depicts...
04/03/2026

This is not the racy lunch in bed it appears. Look closely and you will realize the gravity of this scene, as it depicts the birth of a stillborn child. Such images of melancholy young women, whose posture betray their true origins, surrounded by their family in ruined palaces became metaphors for a world they were forced to flee during the French Revolution. Despite the cataclysmic social and political upheaval, this was a time of unexpected artistic productivity. ‘The Taste for Risk’ is the latest addition to our Journal. Carole Blumenfeld looks at the surprising demand for genre scenes during the Reign of Terror, in particular, by the nobility for Italianate watercolors by Jean-Baptiste Mallet (1759–1835).

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Jean-Baptiste Mallet, Le déjeuner de l’accouchée, 1791-95. Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard Collection, Grasse

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