Henry Jamyn Brooks (1839–1925) was a British painter, particularly known for his pictures of meetings and events, in which many individuals are personally identifiable. He painted royalty, and portraits of civic leaders and military people, and was also a photographer.
Jamyn Brooks in The Tatler, 1902
The First Meeting of the London County Council in the County Hall Spring Gardens, 1889, oil on canvas, 194 x 368 cm, City of London Corporation collection
Alderman Nathaniel Chapple, Mayor of Torrington (1871, 1879 & 1889), oil on canvas, 90.4 x 69.4 cm, Great Torrington Almshouse, Town Lands and Poors Charities collection
The London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London throughout its existence from 1889 to 1965, and the first London-wide general municipal authority to be directly elected. It covered the area today known as Inner London and was replaced by the Greater London Council. The LCC was the largest, most significant and most ambitious English municipal authority of its day.
London County Council
The First Meeting of the London County Council in the County Hall Spring Gardens, 1889 by Henry Jamyn Brooks
Aldwych, a broad, porticoed street with underpass to Waterloo Bridge, from a slum clearance project in 1905
Lambeth Bridge, built by the LCC in 1932, its red colour being that of the nearby House of Lords
