Sydney Prior Hall
 Sir Sydney Prior Hall MVO MA (18 October 1842 – 1922) was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period.The son of animal portraitist Harry Hall Sydney Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He decided on a career as an artist while at Oxford University and joined the staff of The Graphic an illustrated newspaper shortly after its foundation in late 1869.