Henry John Stock
Visionary painter influenced by Blake and Watts
Henry John Stock trained at the Royal Academy Schools and exhibited at the Academy and elsewhere for many years. He seems to have earned his living painting portraits, although his real interest lay in imaginative subjects expressed in a style which suggests the influence of William Blake and G. F. Watts. With Blake he may have felt some special sense of identity. Like Blake, he was born in Soho, and he lived latterly at Felpham in Sussex when Blake had spent the years 1800-03 under the patronage of William Hayley.
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Influenced by
Parent child
- Henry Siddons Mowbray Child
- John H. Bufford‘s & Sons Parent
Artworks by this artist
- ‘And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth’ (Rev. IX – 1) 1902
- The Aspiration of a Soul While Listening to Music
- Dante and Virgil encounter Lucifer in Hell 1923
- Portrait of the Hon. Mrs George Leveson-Gower 1906
- Mermaid rising from the sea 1930
- The Angel of Hope 1883
- The Spirit of the Night 1898
- And the white moon became as blood and the stars of the heavens fell unto the earth (Rev. 6-12.13) 1910
- The hidden pool 1892
- ‘And I saw an angel standing in the sun’ (Rev. 19-17) 1910
- The Poet’s Dream; ‘The Pursuit of the Ideal’ 1881
- Fire and the Sea 1912
- Discovering Daisies 1887-96