Henry Matthew Brock RI (1875-1960)
H M Brock, younger brother of fellow Punch cartoonist Charles Edmund Brock, began submitting cartoons to the magazine in 1905. He was by this date a noted artist (he exhibited widely and became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1906) and book illustrator. His social-themed cartoons appeared in Punch until 1940. As Price (1957) noted, ’An artist like H M Brock, who helped as much as anybody to build up the characteristic Punch flavour, presented the reader with recognisable scenes, rather perhaps as the reader himself might have presented them. In those days, many Punch readers looked for familiarity in an artist, where their descendants look for strangeness.’
Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Dolman B (1981), A Dictionary of British Artists, 1929, Antique Collectors’ Club
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art
H M Brock, younger brother of fellow Punch cartoonist Charles Edmund Brock, began submitting cartoons to the magazine in 1905. He was by this date a noted artist (he exhibited widely and became a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1906) and book illustrator. His social-themed cartoons appeared in Punch until 1940. As Price (1957) noted, ’An artist like H M Brock, who helped as much as anybody to build up the characteristic Punch flavour, presented the reader with recognisable scenes, rather perhaps as the reader himself might have presented them. In those days, many Punch readers looked for familiarity in an artist, where their descendants look for strangeness.’
Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sources and further reading
Bryant M and Heneage S (1994), Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980, Scolar Press
Dolman B (1981), A Dictionary of British Artists, 1929, Antique Collectors’ Club
Johnson J and Greutzner A (1999), British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors’ Club
Price R G G (1957), A History of Punch, Collins
Waters G M (1975), Dictionary of British Artists 1900-1950, Eastbourne Fine Art