This miniature is signed inside the case as shown, "Miss A Chisholm, 105 Southwood Lane, Highgate - "Mrs Alexander Hall" ". Foskett records little about her, other than that a Miss Annie Chishom exhibited at the RA and NWCS between 1890 and 1903.
A search has been made for her in the census records. It seems most likely she is the Anne Chisholm (Annie Chisholm) (March 1842-?) recorded in both the 1881 and 1891 census living in Yerburg Rd, Islington, London with her spinster sister Emily J Chisholm (1834-?) and a servant.
Annie was born in Edmonton, Middlesex and in 1881 gave her occupation as "Artist - Painting & etc." and in 1891 as "artist - drawing and painting".
Despite the Highgate address shown on the reverse of the miniature, Ann Chisholm has not yet been located in the 1901 census.
The sitter is obviously a Mrs Alexander Hall, and the miniature possibly painted around 1910, but nothing more of her is known for certain. However, in 1901 an Alexander J Hall (1869-?), a solicitor born in Highgate was living with his widowed mother, sister and two servants. Thus he would have been the right social background to have a miniature painted of his wife. Highgate is the address given here for Annie Chisholm. Also an Alexander J Hall married Hannah French in Dec 1913 in London, so it is just possible this sitter was Hannah French prior to her marriage and the miniature was painted to commemorate that event. 1233
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