Walter Fryer Stocks (1842–1915) was an English artist.

Life

Walter Fryer Stocks was the second son of nine children (eight sons and a daughter) of the engraver

Lumb Stocks Lumb Stocks (29 November 1812 – 28 April 1892) was a British engraver. In a long career he produced engravings from paintings by notable artists of the day. Early life Stocks was born at Gawbert Hall, Lightcliffe, near Halifax, Yorkshire, th ...

(1812–1892) and Ellen Fryer (1813–1898). Walter's younger brother, Arthur Stocks (1846–1889), was also a painter whose works were exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. His only sister, Katherine Mary (1844–1908), was an exhibited painter of flowers and his youngest brother, Bernard Octavius (1859–1915), was a still life painter and

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the '' intaglio'' family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint achieves tonali ...

engraver.Hunnisett, B. (2004, September 23). Stocks, Lumb (1812–1892), engraver. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 14 Mar. 2021, from https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-26546. Walter was a highly skilled and prolific painter best known for his landscapes, topographical views and scenes of ancient buildings, as well as a series of still-life studies. He had a close artistic association and friendship with the great

Pre-Raphaelites The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...

, including

Simeon Solomon Simeon Solomon (9 October 1840 – 14 August 1905) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelites who was noted for his depictions of Jewish life and same-sex desire. His career was cut short as a result of public scandal following h ...

and

Dante Rossetti Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoo ...

. Walter's portrait in red, white and black chalks of the captivating Jamaican-born beauty

Fanny Eaton Fanny Eaton (23 June 1835 – 4 March 1924) was a Jamaican-born artist's model and domestic worker. She is best known as a model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle in England between 1859 and 1867. Her public debut was in Sim ...

, a celebrated and feted artist's muse for the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, is now in the collection of the

Princeton University Art Museum The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 113,000 works o ...

. Stocks exhibited extensively during his lifetime and some of his works are now hanging in the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

and

the British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...

, as well as other galleries. He married Marian Hill on the 8 January 1883 and they had one son, the organist and composer

Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks Harold Carpenter Lumb Stocks (21 October 1884 – 1956) was an English Organist#Classical and church organists, cathedral organist, who served in St Asaph Cathedral. Background Stocks was born in Essendon, Hertfordshire. He was the son of Ma ...

(1884–1956). Walter Fryer Stocks died on 19 January 1915 and is buried with his wife Marian in the west side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...

, close to the family grave of his father Lumb, mother Ellen and brothers Arthur, Bernard and Charles.

Gallery

Stocks, Walter Fryer, Mrs. Fanny Eaton, ca. 1859.jpg, Portrait of Fanny Eaton by Walter Fryer Stocks Grave of Walter Fryer Stocks in Highgate Cemetery.jpg, Grave of Walter Fryer Stocks in

(west side) Family grave of Lumb Stocks in Highgate Cemetery.jpg, Family grave of

(west side)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stocks, Walter Fryer 1842 births 1915 deaths Burials at Highgate Cemetery 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters English male painters English landscape painters Painters from London 20th-century English male artists 19th-century English male artists