Sydney Prior Hall
(1842-1922), Portrait painter and illustratorSitter 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'.
The Education Bill in the House of Lords (The Collapse of the Archbishop of Canterbury)
by Sydney Prior Hall
watercolour, published in The Graphic 13 December 1902
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1903
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Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, 1903
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by Sydney Prior Hall
oil on canvas, exhibited 1914
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'HRH The Prince of Wales at Marlborough House' (King Edward VII)
supplement to The Graphic, after Sydney Prior Hall
wood engraving, published 1886
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Mr Gladstone and his grandson, Deiniol Gladstone, in the library of The Rectory, Hawarden
after Sydney Prior Hall
wood engraving, 1890s
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William Ewart Gladstone ('Mr Gladstone reading the lesson in Hawarden Church')
after Sydney Prior Hall
halftone printed in colours, 1890s
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Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury speaking in the House of Lords
supplement to The Graphic, after Sydney Prior Hall
chromolithograph, published 1894
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after Sydney Prior Hall
engraving, (1895)
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William Ewart Gladstone ('The evening of his days: Mr Gladstone in the library at Hawarden Castle')
after Sydney Prior Hall
wood engraving, published 19 May 1898 (1890s)
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George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
supplement to The Graphic, after Sydney Prior Hall
colour photogravure, circa 1900
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after Sydney Prior Hall
photographic print, (1913)
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