Hall, Sydney Prior, 1842-1922 : Sydney Prior Hall, journalist, painter and illustrator, was born in Newmarket, Suffolk, England in 1842. He studied art first with his father, and then at the Royal Academy in London, England, as a student of the artist Arthur Hughes. Hall was an illustrator, his most famous collaboration being on "Tom Browne's School Days" with Arthur Hughes. He became an artist-journalist for the London Graphic in 1870, and covered the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He came to the attention of Queen Victoria because of his popular military paintings, and he executed works for her which are now in the Royal Collection, Windsor. Subsequently he accompanied the Queen's daughter, Princess Louise, and her husband, the Marquis of Lorne, to Canada in 1878, and the Marquis of Lorne to the Canadian Northwest in 1881. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1875 to 1904. He died in 1922. Simon Houfe, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1978)