Henry Matthew Brock (1875–1960)

Henry Matthew Brock was a British book illustrator and painter. Born in Cambridge in 1875, he was the son of Edmund Brock (1841–1921), a specialist reader in oriental languages for the Cambridge University Press, and his wife Mary Ann Louise. His elder brother was the artist Charles Edmund (C.E.) Brock, with whom he shared a studio from 1894. In 1912 he married his cousin, Dorothy Joan Pegram, the daughter of the sculptor Henry Alfred Pegram.

Educated at Cambridge School of Art, Brock worked in advertising, for periodicals, and in book illustration. He contributed to Punch magazine, and illustrated many classic works of Victorian and Edwardian fiction, as well as numerous children's books. The University of Reading's H. M. Brock Collection is made up of some 2000 books in which Brock's work was published, many periodical volumes and parts, ephemera such as cigarette cards, and pictures, including over 70 original drawings. He died in 1960.

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