Hal Eyre b. 1875

Also known as Alf Ponty, A. R. P., Henry Leo Eyre, Alf P.
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
Federation-era Sydney and Brisbane newspaper cartoonist. Husband of ceramicist Vi Eyre and father of cartoonist Harry Eyre (Eyre Junior). Eyre worked for a number of years as the political cartoonist on the Daily Telegraph in Sydney.

Citations

  • 'NSW Death Records 67831/1972’.

  • 'NSW Birth records 19688/1875’.

  • 'NSW Marriage records 1305/1861; 7449/1901’.

  • Lindesay, Vane (1979), 'The Inked-In Image’.

  • Eyre, Hal (et al?) (c.1915), '(War Cartoons by Hal Eyre)’, Sydney, NSW: Daily Telegraph.

  • Information sourced from Harris, Joe.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Victoria (2nd edn).

  • 'B.S’ (Stevens, Bertram?) (1916), 'Hal Eyre: Cartoonist’, Sydney, NSW: Lone Hand, 05-01, pp 360-363.

  • anon (Stephens, A.G.?) (1913), 'Black-and-Whiters: VI: Hal Eyre’, Sydney, NSW: Bookfellow, 03-01, pp II-IV.

  • Gibbney, no 470.

See also

  • '"Prithee Pretty Maiden, Will you Marry Me?", re union of the Labor Party and the Independents, Worker 31 January 1903 (ill. Harris, 143, various, 144, 203)'.
  • 'Photograph in 'B. S.' [Bertrand Stevens?], 'Hal Eyre: Cartoonist', Lone Hand 1 May 1916, p. 360'.

Initial data sources

  • Black and white artists