George Henry Hall was American painter of Academic Realism and Hudson River Style.

George Henry Hall was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. His father moved the family to Boston when George was four years old.

George Henry Hall began his career as an artist at the age of 16. In 1849 he traveled with his friend Eastman Johnson to Düsseldorf, Germany.

Hall studied at the Royal Academy in Düsseldorf in 1849, followed by study in Paris, where he lived until 1852.

Upon his return to America, Hall opened a studio in New York and began to paint still lives.

"September" is a large-scale work for Hall, definitely intended to display his virtuosic skill in rendering a wide variety of textures. Hall's inclusion of marble statuary and a window with a distant view (suggesting ownership of a large estate) echo the well-known formulas for aristocratic portraiture.

George Henry Hall died in1913, in New York.