1715 Turin (7 Jan.: 'gave to the servants of Kechan[?] and Hall 11 [livres]'; Coke accts.MSS)
1730 Rome (8 Jun.-12 Oct. - ), Venice (by 1 Dec.)
Hall and the Rev. Younger, with Robert Hewer and How, all Jacobite sympathisers, left Rome for England in October 1730;1 Hall and Younger were in Venice by 1 December.2 This was, presumably, the Hall who had been in Rome with Sir John Astley from July to August.
1. SP 98/32, f.110 (Walton, 12 Oct. 1730). 2. SP 99/63, f.147 (Burges, 1 Dec. 1730).
1744 Florence (Jul.; Drummond, Travels, 40)
1744 Calci (11 Oct.: 'Lord Cathcart's governor', taking a letter for Lady Houston; Scotland Court of Sessions, [1748], 7)
1755 Rome ('Monsu Hal' staying near the Piazza di Spagna; AVR sa, S.Lorenzo in Lucina)
1767 - 8 Florence (12 Sep. 1767), Naples (Dec. 1767), Venice (10 May 1768)
Hall and Trent, with Thomas Noel and Thomas Hooke, were in Florence on 12 September 1767.1 'Trant' and the 'chevalier Haly' were in Naples in December 1767, having been introduced to William Hamilton by Horace Mann.2 On 10 May 1768 'Tomaso Trento' and 'Halij' arrived in Venice.3
1. Gazz.Tosc. 2. SP 105/318, f.175 (Hamilton, 8 Dec. 1767). 3. ASV is 759.
1790 Florence, Rome (by 17 Oct.)
He was seen in the Villa Borghese gardens with Turner by Whaley Armitage who called them both famous English painters, and added that Hall had 'flattered himself most amazingly in the picture he has presented to the Gallery at Florence' (Armitage jnl.MSS, 17 Oct. 1790)