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Description

The City Hall was built in Baroque Revival style by Hull's City architect Joseph Hirst 1903-09. The City Hall does not perform an administrative function for Hull's council, as this is based in the Guildhall. It is home to a grand central hall which plays host to a varied programme of concerts including pop, rock and classical music as well as civic functions such as graduation ceremonies for the University of Hull. Formerly on the first floor of the western part was an Art Gallery. The facades of this part of the building show 28 portrait medallions of famous painters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Paragon Street
Allegory Paragon Street	rubens Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerpen 1640), Flemish artist (Wikipedia).
lely Peter Lely (born Pieter van der Faes; Soest, Westfalen 1618 - London 1680), English painter of Dutch origin (Wikipedia).	velasquez Diego Veläzquez (Sevilla 1599 - Madrid 1660), Spanish painter (Wikipedia).
titian Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore, Venezia c. 1488/90 - Venezia 1576), Italian painter (Wikipedia).	van dyck Anthony van Dyck (Antwerpen 1599 - London 1641), Flemish Baroque artist, court painter in England (Wikipedia).
gainsborough Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk 1727 - London 1788), English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker (Wikipedia).	memling Hans Memling (Seligenstadt c. 1430 - Brugge 1494), German painter, working in Flanders (Wikipedia).
meissonier Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (Lyon 1815 - Paris 1891) (Wikipedia).	reynolds Joshua Reynolds (Plympton, Devon, 1723 - London 1792), English painter, specialising in portraits (Wikipedia).
Chariot Street
perugino Pietro Perugino (born Pietro Vannucci; Citta della Pieve c. 1446 - Fontignano 1523), Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school (Wikipedia).	michael angelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (Caprese 1475 - Rome 1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance (Wikipedia).
teniers David Teniers the Elder (Antwerpen 1582 - Antwerpen 1649), Flemish painter (Wikipedia).	watts George Frederic Watts (Marylebone 1817 - London 1904), English Victorian painter and sculptor (Wikipedia).
kneller Godfrey Kneller (born Gottfried Kniller; Lübeck 1646 - London 1723), portrait painter in England (Wikipedia).	romney George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 1734 - Kendal, Westmorland 1802), English portrait painter (Wikipedia).
landseer Edwin Landseer (London 1802 - London 1873), English painter and sculptor (Wikipedia).	holbein Hans Holbein the Elder (Augsburg c. 1460 - Issenheim, Alsace 1524), German painter (Wikipedia).
Carr Lane
lawrence Thomas Lawrence (Bristol 1769 - London 1830), English portrait painter (Wikipedia).	rembrandt Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden 1606 - Amsterdam 1669), Dutch draughtsman, painter and printmaker (Wikipedia).
hogarth William Hogarth (London 1697 - London 1764), English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist (Wikipedia).	turner William Turner (London 1775 - Chelsea 1851), English Romantic painter (Wikipedia).
leighton Frederic Leighton (Scarborough 1830 - London 1896), British painter, draughtsman and sculptor (Wikipedia).	franz hals Frans Hals (Antwerpen c. 1582 - Haarlem 1666), Dutch Golden Age painter, normally of portraits (Wikipedia).
millais John Everett Millais (Southampton 1829 - London 1896), English painter and illustrator (Wikipedia).	murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Sevilla 1617 - Sevilla 1682), Spanish Baroque painter (Wikipedia).
poussin Nicolas Poussin (Les Andelys 1594 - Rome 1665), French Baroque painter (Wikipedia).	Allegory Carr Lane

Sculptor

• Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, Hull City Hall.
• Historic England, City Hall.
• Letters to the editor in Hull Daily Mail - Monday 17 January 1910, letter to the editor (British Newspaper Archive) and Friday 21 January 1910 (British Newspaper Archive)

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