EDMUND BROCK Painter Illustrator & Portrait artist: Biography - Paintings for sale

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Charles Edmund Brock RI was born on 5th February 1870 in Holloway, London. He was the eldest of four brothers, all destined to become artists, including Henry Matthew Brock. The family later settled in Cambridge where the brothers maintained a studio filled with antiques, furniture, and a costume collection. Charles studied art briefly under Cambridge sculptor Henry Wiles. He got his first book illustrating commission at the age of 20 in 1890. He subsequently became a very successful illustrator of books by authors such as Jonathan Swift, William Thackeray, Jane Austen and George Eliot. He became particularly known for his line drawings, initially working in the tradition of Hugh Thomson. But the artist also developed a highly successful parallel career as a painter, especially of portraits. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1897-1906 and also at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI). He was elected a member of the RI in 1908. He was subsequently to become a very important Society portrait painter, undertaking commissions for the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, Winston Churchill and most importantly for the Duke and Duchess of York (subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) who engaged him to undertake a number of family portraits, especially of their children, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. His most famous and important Royal portrait - of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose with their mother, was executed in 1936 and sold recently at auction for nearly £100,000. The artist died on 28 February 1938. More about Edmund Brock on Wikipedia.

Edmund Brock portrait of Sir Winston Churchill for sale: We have available a very rare pencilled portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Edmund Brock which was sketched from life in about 1908. This portrait of Winston Churchill is skilfully executed in pencil on paper and is mounted, framed and glazed. The picture measures approximately 32.5 cm. by 42.5 cm. including the simple narrow mahogany frame with gilded fillet. The portrait itself measures approximately 23.5 cm. by 32 cm. At bottom right, the artist has signed the portrait: Winston Churchill Edmund Brock RI. The portrait itself is in excellent condition, with no fading and no foxing. The mount is also in very good condition. There is very slight creasing of the paper at top left but only on very close inspection. The simple wooden frame is in very good condition, albeit with a few minor imperfections which do not, however, detract. The picture is ready to hang.