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{{short description|English painter}}

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[[Image:H M Brock 1926.jpg|thumb|300px|right|H. M. Brock in 1926]]
'''Henry Matthew Brock''' (11 July 1875{{spnd}}21 July 1960)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Simkin |first=John |title=Henry Matthew Brock |url=https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTbrock.htm |access-date=9 July 2020 |website=Spartacus Educational }}</ref> was a British [[Illustration|illustrator]] and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was one of [[The Brocks of Cambridge|four artist brothers]], all of them illustrators, who worked together in their family studio in Cambridge.

==Biography==
Born in [[Cambridge]] in [[England]], H. M. Brock was one of four sons of Edmund Brock (1841–1921), a specialist reader in [[Languages of Asia|oriental languages]] for the [[Cambridge University Press]], and his wife Mary Ann Louise (1836–1901) ([[Married and maiden names|née]] Peagram). H. M. Brock was the younger brother of the better-known artist [[C. E. Brock|Charles Edmund Brock]], with whom he shared a studio from 1894. H. M. Brock studied at the [[Cambridge School of Art]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/B/henry-matthew-brock.asp |title=Brock on the Books and Writers website |access-date=8 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091219033048/http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/B/henry-matthew-brock.asp |archive-date=19 December 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Like his brother, he contributed to ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'' 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]]''.<ref>[http://www.bookstallsf.com/dickens.html Various editions of A Christmas Carol on The Bookstall website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702064454/http://www.bookstallsf.com/dickens.html |date=2 July 2012 }}</ref> In addition, Brock was one of two artists (the other being [[Joseph Simpson (artist)|Joseph Simpson]]) who contributed illustrations to [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s 1911 [[Sherlock Holmes]] story, "[[The Adventure of the Red Circle]]".<ref name=web>[https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Red_Circle The Adventure of the Red Circle at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia.]</ref> H.M. Brock provided illustrations for Susan Coolidge's ''What Katy Did at Home and at School'' (Seely and Co., 1911).{{r|Kirkpatrick-2019|p=64}} He illustrated several books for [[T. N. Foulis]].<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=brock+foulis&qt=results_page Brock Foulis], worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.</ref> Brock was a frequent exhibitor.{{refn|group=note|Brock exhibited as follows: five works at the [[Royal Birmingham Society of Artists]], four works at the [[Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts]], 16 works at the [[Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool]], 12 works at the [[Royal Academy]], 48 works at the [[Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours]], and three works at the [[Royal Scottish Academy]].{{r|Johnson-Greutzner-1986-76}}}}

Most of Brock's illustrations were for classic [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] fiction. He also did a great deal of work for the [[D'Oyly Carte Opera Company]] for whom he produced posters and other advertising materials. During his artistic career, H. M. Brock regularly exhibited his drawings and watercolours at the [[Royal Academy]] and the [[Walker Art Gallery]] in [[Liverpool]]. He became a full member of the [[Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours]] in 1907,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cambridgeprints.com/illustrators/BROCK.html |title=H. M. Brock on the Cambridge Book & Print Gallery website |access-date=8 January 2010 |archive-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219062524/http://www.cambridgeprints.com/illustrators/BROCK.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> and joined the newly formed [[Society of Graphic Art]] in 1921.{{r|Kirkpatrick-2019|p=55}}

From the 1930s on he worked in comics, drawing "The Mystery of Study 13" for ''[[Sparker (UK comics)|Sparkler]]'' (1937), "Breed of the Brudenells" for ''[[Knockout (UK comics)|Knockout]]'' (1949), and an adaptation of ''[[Lorna Doone]]'' for ''[[Princess (comics)|Princess]]'' (1960).<ref>Alan Clarke, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 28</ref>

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 [[Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital|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.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1904&iid=32858_625988_3274-00386&fn=Henry+Mattew&ln=Brock&st=r&ssrc=&pid=19605816 Record for Henry Mattew Brock England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966] ''[[Ancestry.com]]'' website</ref>

The [[University of Reading]] has an H. M. Brock Collection, which is made up of some 2000 books in which Brock's work was published, many [[periodical]] volumes and parts, ephemera such as [[cigarette card]]s, and pictures, including over 70 original drawings.<ref>[http://www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/collections/sc-brock.aspx The H. M. Brock Collection] at the [[University of Reading]]</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed heights=300px>
Image:brock-sorcerer-1919.jpg|H. M. Brock's 1919 poster for ''[[The Sorcerer]]''
File:H._M._Brock_-_Gilbert_and_Sullivan_-_D'Oyly_Carte_Opera_Company_Ruddigore_revival_1921.jpg|Illustration of the ghost scene from ''[[Ruddigore]]'' (1921)
</gallery>

==Notes==
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==References==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=Johnson-Greutzner-1986-76>{{cite book 
 |last1=Johnson 
 |first1=J. 
 |last2=Greutzner 
 |first2=A. 
 |title=The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 
 |pages=76 
 |date=8 June 1905 
 |publisher=Antique Collectors' Club 
 |location=Woodbridge }}</ref>
<ref name=Kirkpatrick-2019>{{cite book 
 |last1=Kirkpatrick 
 |first1=Robert J. 
 |title=The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books: 1844-1970 
 |date=2019 
 |publisher=Robert J. Kirkpatrick 
 |location=London }}</ref>

}}

==Further reading==
*C. M. Kelly, ''The Brocks: A Family of Cambridge Artists and Illustrators'', 1975, Houfe: 75.

==External links==
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=32971}}
* {{FadedPage|id=Brock, H. M.|name=H. M. Brock|author=yes}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henry Matthew Brock}}
*[http://buttes-chaumont.blogspot.com/2007/07/h-m-brock-1875-1960.html Brock's Children's Illustrations]
*[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/brock/index.html H. M. Brock on Victorianweb]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091219033048/http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/writer/B/henry-matthew-brock.asp List of books illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock]
*[http://ignisart.com/camdenhouse/gallery/7-1911.htm#Brock  Brock's illustrations] for the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''[[The Adventure of the Red Circle]]'', [[Strand Magazine]], March – April 1911.
*[http://solitary-elegance.com/pers-02.htm Brock's illustrations] for ''[[Persuasion (novel)|Persuasion]]'' by [[Jane Austen]]
*[https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=artist:name=%22Henry%20Matthew%20Brock%22 Brock's illustrations from British Library Flickr account]
* [https://archive.org/details/essaysofleighhun00hunt ''Essays of Leigh Hunt''] (1891)
* {{LCAuth|n79095383|H. M. Brock|23|ue}}

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