H. M. Brock
Henry Matthew Brock (11 July 1875 – 21 July 1960)[1] was a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of four artist brothers, all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge.
Biography
Born in
magazine.While Charles Edward Brock painted in oils and was elected a member of the British Institution, H. M. Brock worked in advertising as well as in book illustration. For example, he illustrated Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, and produced four colour plates for a 1935 edition of A Christmas Carol.[3] In addition, Brock was one of two artists (the other being Joseph Simpson) who contributed illustrations to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1911 Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Red Circle".[4] H.M. Brock provided illustrations for Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did at Home and at School (Seely and Co., 1911).[5]: 64 He illustrated several books for T. N. Foulis.[6] Brock was a frequent exhibitor.[note 1]
Most of Brock's illustrations were for classic
From the 1930s on he worked in comics, drawing "The Mystery of Study 13" for
On 7 September 1912 at Hampstead Brock married his cousin, Doris Joan Pegram, the daughter of the sculptor Henry Alfred Pegram, brother of the illustrator Fred Pegram. H. M. Brock died in the Evelyn Nursing Home in Cambridge in July 1960 aged 85. In his will he left £7,961 13s. 5d. to his widow, Doris Joan Brock.[10]
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H. M. Brock's 1919 poster for The Sorcerer
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Illustration of the ghost scene from Ruddigore (1921)
Notes
- Royal Academy, 48 works at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and three works at the Royal Scottish Academy.[7]
References
- ^ Simkin, John. "Henry Matthew Brock". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
- ^ "Brock on the Books and Writers website". Archived from the original on 19 December 2009. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
- ^ Various editions of A Christmas Carol on The Bookstall website Archived 2 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Adventure of the Red Circle at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia.
- ^ a b Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (2019). The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books: 1844-1970. London: Robert J. Kirkpatrick.
- ^ Brock Foulis, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
- ^ Johnson, J.; Greutzner, A. (8 June 1905). The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club. p. 76.
- ^ "H. M. Brock on the Cambridge Book & Print Gallery website". Archived from the original on 19 February 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
- ^ Alan Clarke, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, p. 28
- ^ Record for Henry Mattew Brock England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966 Ancestry.com website
- ^ The H. M. Brock Collection at the University of Reading
Further reading
- C. M. Kelly, The Brocks: A Family of Cambridge Artists and Illustrators, 1975, Houfe: 75.
External links
- Works by H. M. Brock at Project Gutenberg
- Works by H. M. Brock at Faded Page (Canada)
- Works by or about H. M. Brock at Internet Archive
- Brock's Children's Illustrations
- H. M. Brock on Victorianweb
- List of books illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock
- Brock's illustrations for the Strand Magazine, March – April 1911.
- Brock's illustrations for Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Brock's illustrations from British Library Flickr account
- Essays of Leigh Hunt (1891)
- H. M. Brock at Library of Congress, with 23 library catalogue records