Oil on Canvas by Richard Henry Brock (1871-1943)

An oil on canvas by Richard Henry Brock depicting a countryside scene with a chestnut horse drinking from a stream.
The horse is watched over by a young boy.
Well painted and in very good condition with no losses and housed in the original gilt wood and gesso frame.
The frame is in very good order.
Signed bottom right.

BIOGRAPHY…. Richard Henry Brock (1871-1943)
He was the second son of Edmund Brock, the younger brother of Charles Edmund Brock and older brother of Henry Matthew Brock.

He was born in Colney Hatch, London, in 1871, moving with his family to Cambridge a few years later where his father was a reader with the Cambridge University Press. All three Brocks — as well as another brother, Thomas Alfred (who later went on to be a mathematician), and two sisters, Katherine Allison and Bertha Matilda, lived with their parents at St. Andrew the Less for many years.

Richard shared a studio with Charles and Harry Brock in Cambridge but did not share their interest in architecture, furniture and fashion. Where they gained reputations as book illustrators, Richard concentrated on painting, earning a modest income from local landscapes, mostly in oils. He did turn his hand of illustrating magazines for children such as The Prize and Chatterbox.

In later years he illustrated a number of books, mostly for girls, including Tracked on the Trail by Nancy M. Haynes (1926), Another Pair of Shoes by Jessie Leckie Herbertson (1929) and The Windmill Guides by Violet M. Methley (1931). A couple of rare excursions into standard novels were illustrated editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (n.d.) and The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1924).

Richard Henry Brock died in Brentford, London, in 1943, aged 71.

Richard Henry Brock’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 110 USD to 8,291 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.