Group portrait of the Wallinger children, full-length, the boy standing in breeches holding a riding crop, the girls seated in white dresses, one with a pink sash and bonnet with pink ribbons, the other with a blue sash, with a spaniel, in a garden

John James Halls was primarily a portraitist, although he also painted historical subjects later in his career. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London, exhibiting at the Royal Academy from 1791-1827. He had a particularly successful portrait practice; a number of his portraits were engraved.