Charles Stewart Parnell, Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt, and Thomas Miller Beach

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Charles Stewart Parnell, Sir George Henry Lewis, 1st Bt, and Thomas Miller Beach

by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, published in The Graphic 16 February 1889
11 1/2 in. x 18 in. (292 mm x 457 mm)
Given by the artist's son, Harry Reginald Holland Hall, 1928
Primary Collection
NPG 2244

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  • Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922), Portrait painter and illustrator. Artist or producer associated with 152 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.

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As Parnell and his solicitor walk together they chance upon Thomas Miller Beach, the government spy known as Major Le Caron who had testified on nationalist circles in the United States. Published in The Graphic, 16 February 1889.

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Current affairs

The London Dock strike takes place resulting in a victory for the dock workers striking over pay and conditions.
Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, allowing legal intervention between children and parents for the first time.
Charles Booth, the English social scientist, publishes the first volume of Life and Labour of the People, an extensive survey into the living conditions of London's East End working class communities.

Art and science

George Gissing's The Nether World, a dark account of the lives of the urban poor in Clerkenwell, is published. Gissing absorbs the French naturalist style of writers such as Emile Zola to produce a harshly realistic observation of life in London at the end of the nineteenth century.

International

The Eiffel Tower is erected, designed by the French engineer and bridge builder Alexandre Gustave Eiffel for the Paris Exposition. At 300m high, it was the tallest manmade structure in the world at the time.
The Second International organisation is formed at a Congress in Paris by various socialist and labour parties, with the intention of working together for international socialism. It also declared 1 May International Labour Day.

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