Debate on the Indian Council Cotton Duties
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by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, published in The Graphic 2 March 1895
21 3/8 in. x 14 5/8 in. (542 mm x 372 mm)
Given by the artist's son, Harry Reginald Holland Hall, 1929
Primary Collection
NPG 2307
Artistback to top
- Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922), Portrait painter and illustrator. Artist associated with 152 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
Sittersback to top
- Joseph ('Joe') Chamberlain (1836-1914), Industrialist and politician; MP for Birmingham. Sitter in 104 portraits.
- George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen (1831-1907), Financier and Liberal politician; MP for City of London and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sitter in 38 portraits.
- Sir William Vernon Harcourt (1827-1904), Lawyer, journalist and Liberal politician; MP for Oxford and Derby, Chancellor of the Exchequer and leader of the British Liberal Party. Sitter in 54 portraits.
- Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford (1828-1911), Barrister, Attorney-General and politician; MP for Taunton and Bury. Sitter in 24 portraits.
- Sir Frank Lockwood (1846-1897), Lawyer and Liberal politician; MP for York. Sitter in 13 portraits, Artist associated with 1 portrait.
- John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), Politician, Secretary of State for India, newspaper editor and writer. Sitter associated with 32 portraits.
- Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), President of Indian National Congress and politician; MP for Finsbury. Sitter in 4 portraits.
- Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (1852-1928), Prime Minister. Sitter in 71 portraits.
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- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (House of Lords and House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, London)
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Subjects & Themesback to top
Events of 1895back to top
Current affairs
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is first performed, the same year that he is imprisoned for homosexual offences following accusations made against him by the eighth Marquess of Queensbury. Whilst in prison, Wilde wrote De Profundis, a letter addressed to his former lover, Queensbury's son Lord Alfred Douglas, attacking him for his role in Wilde's imprisonment.Prime Minister Lord Rosebery resigns and is succeeded by Salisbury.
Art and science
The Lumiere brothers hold the first public screening of movies at Paris's Salon Indien du Grand Café, featuring ten short films recorded with Leon Bouly's cinematographe device, recognised as the birth of cinema as a commercial medium.Henry Irving, the celebrated actor and theatre manager, becomes the first actor to receive a knighthood.
International
In South Africa, prompted by the growing unrest of unfranchised British immigrants (Uitlanders) drawn to the Transvaal by the discovery of gold, Rhodes and other members of the South African mining community begin to plot the republic's overthrow. As a result, the disastrous Jameson Raid takes place, carried out on Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic by Leander Starr Jameson and his Rhodesian and Bechuanaland policemen: it fails to bring about an Uitlander uprising.Tell us more back to top
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