Sydney Prior Hall
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Sydney Prior Hall (1842-1922) was a portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period. According to the National Portrait Gallery web site[1]: "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'."
He illustrated a number of books including Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes.
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- National Portrait Gallery[2]
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