Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922), Portrait painter and illustrator
Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist associated with 152 portraits
Hall was one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period. He joined The Graphic shortly after its foundation in 1869, having decided on a career as an artist while at Oxford. He immediately established his name with a series of vivid drawings made at the front during the Franco-Prussian war. As The Art Journal commented, his drawings of the Parnell Commission were among his finest achievements in the medium of graphic journalism: 'he was in court the whole time, busy with a swift revealing pencil which missed no turn of affairs'.
Richard Everard Webster, Viscount Alverstone
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2300
Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil
NPG 2335
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2309
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2310
William Ewart Gladstone; Timothy Michael Healy
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil
NPG 2319
Hardinge Stanley Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil
NPG 2336
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2305
Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2292
Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2299
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2298
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1875-1900
NPG 2306
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
Place
Suffolk
