Live Auction 15506Victorian Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Henry John Stock (1853-1930)
Lot 54

Henry John Stock (1853-1930)

Fire and the Sea

Closed11 July 2018

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GBP 15,000

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Henry John Stock (1853-1930)
Fire and the Sea
signed and dated 'H.J. STOCK/1912' (lower right) and further signed and inscribed 'No. 2/Title/Fire & the Sea/By/Henry J. Stock/Eastfield/Felsham/Nr Bognor/Price £15-15=0' (on the artist's label on the backboard)
pencil and watercolour with bodycolour on card
12 5/8 x 9 ¾ in. (32.3 x 24.7 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Billingshurst, 29 April 1986, lot 2951.

Specialist note

Stock is a relatively unknown but highly individual artist who was an exponent of the English Romantic tradition. He enjoyed success as a society portrait painter, but his main area of interest was always highly-imaginative subjects. Stock's visual sources were equally diverse. There are passages in his work which suggest that he looked at the Pre-Raphaelites and C.H. Shannon (1863-1937), but the greatest influences on him were William Blake and G.F. Watts, in both his subject matter and sublime imagery.