Portraits of Irish Nationalists by Sir Sydney Prior Hall

Sixty-five portraits of Irish Members of Parliament from twenty-one counties of Ireland appear in the O’Donohoe Archive.[1]  They were drawn in 1888 by artist Sydney Prior Hall during the Special Commission.[2]   Hall, like his colleague William Henry Pike (1850-1908), worked as an artist for the Graphic newspaper.     Hall’s portraits of Irish nationalists […]