Exhibited Works

All Works exhibited by James Clarke Hook at the Royal Academy
(plus some others not exhibited)


Key: The basic list comes from Allan J. Hook's Appendix C, "List of all Works exhibited by J.C. Hook at the Royal Academy," in his 3-volume Life of James Clarke Hook (AJH). To this I add information from Denise B. Bethel's thesis for the Courtauld Institute of May 1975, "James Clarke Hook, R.A. (1819-1907)" ("Bethel"). (She gives dimensions, in inches, where she can find them.) Information on sales, 1970s to 2001, comes from the listing provided by Robert Upstone of the Tate Gallery ("Upstone"). Information on the sites where paintings were painted, where I have it, comes mainly from a handwritten list I found in a private collection, which I believe was compiled by F.G. Stephens under JCH’s guidance, preparatory to his writing the life of Hook as the Art Annual for 1888; I notice the list of locations ends about then. (I reference this as "FGS.") Where I know the current location, the present gallery location of the original, I add it in bold. I reference private collections by location.

Where I know of a painting, and its probable date, that was not exhibited in the Royal Academy, I add it to the listing, with "Not RA." Some of these are listed by Allan in his Appendix D, which therefore overlaps somewhat with my listing. Sketches and other works I know of become too numerous to list.

Juliet McMaster

1839

215      The hard task. Untraced. Interior with two figures. AJH 43

1842

15        Portrait of Master John Finch Smith. Untraced.

1844

774      Pamphilus relating his story: "And they went into a meadow of grass and sate down, as the Queen had commanded, when Pamphilus, in obedience to her wish, and being well heard, spoke to this effect."shy; Vide Introduction of Boccacio to his Novels. 30" x 60". AJH 43. Private collection.

Not RA      "Her voice is like the evening thrush
That sings on Cessnock banks unseen," etc. B.I. 1844 (40). Untraced (Bethel)

1845

85        Portrait of A. Elmslie, Esq. Untraced.

667      The song of olden time
"Theyr song so sweete brought agayne the dayes
Of his love to Sir Rowland's mynde."
Engraved for London Art Union Prize Annual for 1847, plate xi (Bethel). AJH 48

Not RA           Lorenzo and Jessica. B.I. 1845, no. 155. Untraced

Not RA           Finding the Body of Harold. Winner of the RA Gold Medal for Painting. 1845. Engraved for The Illustrated London News, 1845, II, 388 (Bethel)

1846

1314    The controversy between Lady Jane Grey and Feckenham, who was sent to her from the Queen, two days before her death, to convert her to Romanism.
Feck.   "Doth not Christ speak these words, 'Take, eat; this is my body?' Doth he not say, it is his body?"
Lady Jane. "I grant he saith so; and so he saith, I am the vine,' 'I am the door.' Doth not St. Paul say, 'He calleth things that are not, as though they were?' God forbid that I should say that I eat the natural body and blood of Christ."  - Fox's Martyrs.
Engraved for the London Union Prize Annual for 1848, pl. x (Bethel). Private Collection, Macclesfield.  AJH 49

Not RA           Reading a merry tale, a thought from England's happy days. B.I. 1846 (124). Untraced

Not RA           Cottage Quizzing - a sketch. Society of British Artists 1846 (471). Untraced

Not RA           Arming the Knight. Unexhibited; probably painted before 1846 (see Bethel's text, n. 26). Engraved for the Art Journal, 1867, f.p. 148 (Bethel).

1847

865      Bassanio commenting on the caskets. "Merchant of Venice," III, ii. Untraced. AJH 59.

Not RA           Four subjects from Rogers' Poem of "A Wish." B.I. 1845 (405). Engraved for the London Union Arts Prize Annual for 1847, plates iv and xiv (Bethel).

Not RA           Rizpah watching the dead sons of Saul. B.I. 1847 (150). Untraced.

1848

455      "When the Emperor Otho IV came to Florence, the beautiful women of the city being assembled in Santa Reparata to do him honour, the maid Gauldrada pleased him most; and her father saying of her to the Emperor that he was at liberty to kiss her, the damsel replied, that no man living should kiss her unless he were her husband: for which words the Emperor commended her much; and the Count Guido was taken so much in love of her, for her grace, that, with the counsel of the Emperor, he made her his wife. " - Chronicles of Giovanni Villani. Untraced

Not RA, c. 1848. Bridge in Venice. Small painting. Private collection

1849

177      The Chevalier Bayard wounded at Brescia.
"The damsels were fair, virtuous, and well trained, and had afforded much pastime to the Chevalier during his illness by their choice singing, playing on the lute, and their much cunning needlework." (Bethel calls it "The Departure of the Chevalier Bayard from Brescia" - or is this a different painting? B.I. 1850 (317). Engraved for the Illustrated London News 1650, I 236 (Bethel). Untraced.

382      Othello's first suspicion. 21 x 16 ½ inches, 53.3 x 41.8 cm. Sold at Christie's 13 November 1992. Colour repro, Witt Library.

517      Bianca Capello.        
"The young Bianca found her father's door,
That door so often with a trembling hand,
So often-then so lately left ajar,
Shut; and all terror, all perplexity,
Now by her lover urged, now by her love,
Fled o'er the waters, to return no more." - Rogers's Italy.
Photo, private collection. Original untraced.

1850

376      Francesco Novello di Carrara, and the Lady Taddea escape from the emissaries of Galeazzo Visconti, who are in pursuit of them. "A thicket afforded them shelter till their company had passed by, and Carrara then cheered the drooping spirits of his lady by assuring her that certain succor was at hand."       - Chronicle of Gataro.
Engraved for Illustrated London News 1850, I, 337 (Bethel). Photo, private collection. "A replica was in the possession of R. Ansdell R.A. Sold 1873. Murietta [?]. Lord Northwick Paris[?]" (FGS). This one (probably) sold as "The escape" (26x34in 66x87cm) at Phillips, London, 1 Nov 1988 for £3000.

503      A dream of Venice.
"Si costuma andando altorno in gondola,
Concerti di musiche di cercarli per sollazzo." - Sansovino
48 x 30 1/2. Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield. I have b & w repro. AJH 77

Not RA      The old steps 14.5 x 12 in, 37 x 30.5 cm. Oil on panel. Signed and dated 1850. Sold at Sotheby's, Billingshurst, for £1700, 26 Jan 1999.

1851

361      The rescue of the brides of Venice
"Having surprised the pirates at Caorli, where they were dividing their booty, the youths made great havoc among them, and regained the brides and their marriage portions." - Sansovino. 51 x 42 1/2. Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. Photo, private collection. "Scenes on board a ship" (FGS).
Bryan Hook has an account of an episode from Rogers' poem, and of old Rogers’ view of the picture at the Private View, an anecdote presumably told him by JCH.

535      The defeat of Shylock. 31 1/2 x 39 1/2.
Portia: "Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood - nor take thou less, nor more,
But just a pound of flesh; if thou tak'st more,
Or less, than just a pound, - be it but so much
As makes it light, or heavy, in the substance,
Or the division of the twentieth part
Of one poor scruple, - nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair -          
Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate." - Merchant of Venice
Manchester City Art Gallery. "International Exhibition of 1817" (FGS).

1852

210      Othello's description of Desdemona
"An admirable musician! 0, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! of so high and plenteous wit and invention!" Othello, act iv, scene i.
31 x 21 in, 79 x 53 cm. Folger Shakespeare Gallery, Washington.

Not RA           Small version of the above, 6 x 9 1/2. Juliet

Not RA           but of the same period: small sketch group of male musician, two girls, one of them in same costume, I think, as the Desdemona above. Private collection.

Not RA           Portrait of a Lady. 10 x 7 ½ in (same model as above, I think), sold at Christie' s 17-18 Jan 1974.

380      Signor Torello goes to fight the Turks, and is made prisoner; his wife, supposing him to be dead, is persuaded by her family to marry again. Torello returns and appears in disguise at the marriage feast, when he makes himself known to his wife by dropping his ring in a pledge cup. - Vide Boccacio.
"International Exhibition of 1862". F.G. Stephens.  AJH 85

279      The Chevalier Bayard, "sans peur et sans reproche," confers the order of knighthood on the infant son of the Duke of Bourbon, when visiting this prince, on a journey through Moulins. Untraced.

362      Queen Isabella of Castile, with her daughters, visited many of the nunneries, taking her needle with her and endeavouring by her conversation and example to withdraw the inmates from the low and frivolous pleasures to which they were addicted. - Vide Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella. 

28 x 36. In 1972, owned by Frederick Thom Galleries, Toronto. Reproduced in the Connoisseur, August 1972, 40. (Bethel) "Sold April 1871 Gambart Sale. FGS"     

1854

117      A rest by the way-side. Untraced. "Landscape. Etched by the artist for the Club work of 1867" (FGS) AJH 89

147      A few minutes to wait before twelve o'clock. Original untraced. B & w photo, private collection. Etched. A.H. Palmer says the woman is Rosalie, the baby Allan (who was born 1853). 

233      Time of the persecution of the Christian Reformers in Paris.
"The Papists assembled in the streets, and sung canticles before the images of the Virgin that were then exposed at the corners of the houses. Those who passed were invited to join in the chorus, and if they refused to do so, they were insulted and beaten." -A.D. 1559. Vide History of France.
Engraved for the Art Journal, 1856, 43 (Bethel). Untraced.

Not RA           Columbus. Sold at Sotheby' s, London, for £5,500 11 Mar 1898.

1855

9          Market Morning.
"There's a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's,
The only one dwelling on earth that she loves."
Engraved for the Art Journal, 1856, 41. AJH 89

31        A fracture. 10 X 8. Portrait of Allan J. Hook with a broken doll. "In the artist's possession" (FGS). Private collection.

77        "Colin thou kenst, the southerne shepheard's boye." - Spenser. My guess, on the evidence of "A few minutes..." 1854, is that the mother and little boy are again Rosalie and Allan. "Abinger. Etched by the artist. 1857 work" (FGS). AJH 89. Sold at the Fine Arts Society, Bond St. 2000. Private collection, California

12        The birthplace of the streamlet. Untraced  

486      The gratitude of the mother of Moses for the safety of her child.
 "And the maid went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said unto
her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the
woman took the child, and nursed it."­   Exodus ii., 8, 9.
(50x32in 127x82cm) Sold at Sotheby' s for £6200 Sept 26 1990. Commentary by Ruskin, "Academy Notes."

1856

171      The brambles in the way. "Landscape, girl, style upright" (FGS). AJH 90. Sold at Christie's 2005, for £7000. Private collection.

209      A passing cloud. Photograph, Witt Library. Engraved for the Art Journal, 1865, f.p. 276. Exhibited Manchester Exhibition, 1857.

272      "Welcome, bonny boat!" 24 x 36. Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. "Sea Coast, Clovelly. Manchester FGS" (FGS). AJH 90

557      The fisherman's "good night." 20 x 30. Painted at Clovelly. Private collection, Surrey. "Etched by the artist for the 1857 Club work."

Not RA           The first whisper. 17 x 13 in, 42 x 32 com. Sold at Christie' s, 25 May 1979. Photo, Mellon Centre.

1857

160      A signal on the horizon. "Her union jack is at the fore." "Clovelly. upright. engraved for The Graphic" (FGS). Original untraced. Engraving, 24 1/2 x 18 1/4, British Museum. AJH 94

278    A widow's son going to sea.
"Sail forth into the sea, 0 ship!
Through wind and wave, right onward steer!
The moistened eye, the trembling lip,
Are not the signs of doubt or fear." Photo, private collection. AJH 94. Painted at Clovelly.

545      The shipboy's letter. "Abinger. landscape. upright. The parents reading the letter. Matthews collection" (FGS). Engraved for The Illustrated London News 1859 I 45. Etched. Companion piece commissioned, showing shipboy writing. AJH 94. Might be the picture dated 1857 called "A country idyll", sold at Sotheby Belgravia, 18 Mar 1980 for £450.

Not RA           The shipboy writing his letter. painted for Mr. C.P. Matthews, who purchased "The shipboy's letter." Untraced

Not RA           Catching a butterfly (spring). Unexhibited. 23x37in 58x95cm. Sold at Christie' s, London, 15 June 1973 for £1800.

1858

232      "Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children are their
fathers." - Proverbs xvii., 6. "Hambledon landscape" (FGS). Untraced. AJH 105

326      A pastoral
"Then blow your pypes, shepherds, till you be at home;
The night highest fast, yts time to be gone." - Spenser.
"Hambledon landscape" (FGS). Untraced. AJH 105. Commentary by Ruskin, "Academy Notes."

453      The coast boy gathering eggs. "Lundy Island" (FGS). Photograph, private collection. Etched. AJH 106.

1859

250      The brook

"And out again I curve and flow,
To join the brimming river;
For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on for ever." - Tennyson.
26x41in 67x105 cm. Private collection, Greenwich, Conn (Bethel). Sold at Sotheby's 11 Mar 1998 for £27000. Reproduced in Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelitism, p. 225. Engraved for the Art Journal, 1867, f.p. 272. "Pockford Brook, Chiddingfold. 1862, FGS" AJH 111. Commentary by Ruskin, "Academy Notes."

369      "Luff, boy!" 24 1/2 x 36 1/2. Private collection, North Carolina. Clovelly. Engraved by Simmons. Replica in possession of Mr. Barlow R.A." The older boy is Johnny Cruse of Clovelly, the younger Richard Pengelly (Tom Cruse, Bideford). Ruskin in "Academy Notes": "A glorious picture - most glorious!" See full info with the smaller version in catalogue entry for the Ruskin exhibition: war scare because of Napoleon III. AJH 109-10.

Not RA           Smaller copy of "Luff, boy!" 17.8 x 22.2. Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums, Brighton and Hove. Exhibited as no. 208 in Ruskin exhibition. See commentary in catalogue.

439      A Cornish gift. Original untraced. "Clovelly. Lobster being given to girl in boat. Leeds. Sold £840 Ap 30 1881 FGS" (FGS).

493      The skipper ashore. "Clovelly. Boy in boat. Lithographed. R.A. Elect" (FGS). Original untraced. AJH 110

Not RA           Portrait of Bryan Hook. Not dated, but Bryan was born July 1856, and looks about four. Private collection, Kenya.

1860

22        "Whose bread is on the waters". Original untraced. "Man and boy throwing draft nets, Clovelly" (FGS).

186      Stand clear. Original untraced. "Clovelly. upright. sea." 1862 FGS. Replica afterward painted" (FGS). Probably the replica (14 x 19 inches, 35 x 23 cm) sold at Christie’s 12 November 1992 for £650.

301      The valley on the moor. "Thursly" (FGS). Untraced.

408    "0 well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay."
"Clovelly" (FGS). (21 x 42in 53 x 107cm). JCH letter of 7 August 1860 says "Boat on the bay" sold first for £350 guineas. Sold at Tennants, Leyburn, for £6500  May 14 1996.

Not RA           "Another Dog!" renamed Deep sea fishing. Rejected diploma painting. See Bethel n. 110, AJH 124-7, 302. Replaced by Gathering limpets, 1886. Guildhall Art Gallery, London.

1861

118      Leaving Cornwall for the Whitby fishing. 27 x 42 in, 68 x 106 cm. Sold at Christie' s, 5 March 1971. "St. Ives" (FGS's notes).  AJH 123. Untraced.

317      "Compass'd by the inviolate sea." 21 1/2 x 41 1/2. Private collection, London. "St. Ives. Replica afterwards painted" (FGS). AJH 123

Not RA           Small copy of above. Untraced.

522      Sea urchins. 20 x 33. Guildhall Art Gallery, London. Etched. St. Ives. AJH 123, 204

1862

81        The Acre by the Sea. Untraced. "Aberporth" (FGS). AJH 138. (See note below for "Sea air" 1862.)

357      The trawlers.
"A net that was cast into the sea, And gathered of every kind."
"Clovelly" (FGS). Untraced. AJH 143

378      Sea air. Untraced. "Aberporth. Family in a cart going towards the sea" (FGS). AJH 138

Note: a painting signed and dated 1862 sold as "An old man with a small boy" (27x23in 69x58cm) at Graves Son and Pilcher, 20 Jan 1984 could be "The acre by the sea" or "Sea air"?

1863

176      The prawn-catchers. 21 x 35 in. Photograph, private collection. "Scilly Islands" (FGS).

219      A sailor's wedding party. 25 ½ x 35 ½ inches, 64.5 x 90 cm. Brighton Art Gallery. "Scilly Islands" (FGS). Commentary in Illustrated London News.

335      Leaving at low water. 27 x 42. Royal Holloway College, Surrey "Scilly Islands". Sold April 28, '83 L1365. FGS." .AJH 145

1864

105      The broom dasher. Wrongly called "A Devonshire Stream" in the Witt Library. Original untraced. "Churt: a broom-hawker" (FGS). AJH 150

146      From under the sea. 42 1/2 x 32 1/2. Manchester City Art Gallery. "Botallack Mine near St. Just. Exhibited in America. c. 1883" (FGS). AJH 148

322      Milk for the schooner. (26x42in 67x106cm) "Near St. Just" (FGS). AJH 150. Sold at Christie's 29 July 1977. Sold at Sotheby's, Billingshurst 21 July 1987 for £2900. Sold at Christie' s, London 5 Nov  1993 for £8000. Private collection, London.

445      Cornish miners leaving work. Untraced. "Near St. Just. Sea" (FGS).

571      A narrow lane. Diploma work deposited in the Academy on his election as an Academician [but afterwards exchanged? See AJH 125] Untraced. "Coast, Concarneau. Sold June 20 '68. FGS."

1865

40        Breton fishermen's wives. Untraced. "Coast, Concarneau. Sold June 20 '68. FGS" (FGS). Perhaps "Helping hand on the seashore" (27x42in 68x108cm) dated 1865, sold at Christie' s, London, 6 May 1983 for £500.

70        The mackerel take. 27 x 42 in. Reproduced in the Connoisseur, 1913, p. 107 (Bethel).  "Concarneau. Now in the possession of Mr. Price" (FGS). AJH 153, 235

283      The sardine fleet. Untraced. AJH 153

567      The seaweed gatherer. Untraced. "Concarneau. Sold Christie's May 16 1868. £682. Agnew. FGS" (FGS). (27x42in 69x107cm) sold at Biddle and Webb, Birmingham 2 Sep1977 for £750; sold at Taylor' s, Honiton, 8 April 1988 for £3250.

886      Etching - a sea boy gathering eggs. "Lundy Island. See no. 453, 1858" (FGS).

1866

99        Landing salmon. Photo. "Johnshaven. Sold May 17 '79 £1050 A. Brooks' sale. FGS" (FGS). Private collection, Toronto.

148      Washerwomen - Brittany. Photo, Mellon Centre. "Concarneau. Sold Christie's March 16 '67." (FGS).

239      "Give us this day our daily bread". Also called Hoisting sail. 27 1/4 x 42 1/2. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. "Coast, Coldingham" (FGS). See info supplied by the gallery: Provenance: bought from the artist by C.P. Matthews, sold at Christies's, bgt by Agnew for Holt, £1874/4/0. Exhib. Vienna International, 1873; Cork, 1902, Whitechapel, 1908. AJH 157-8. Favourably rev in Times, Athenaeum, unfavourably in Spectator, which said Hook's paintings were "painted by the yard."

268      Baiting for haddock. Untraced. "Johnshaven" (FGS)

1867

91        Digging for sand-eels. 26 1/2 x 41 1/2. Private collection, Richmond. "With an old oar. Gardenstown, Banffshire" (FGS).

138      "Mother Carey's chickens". Photograph, private collection. "Gardenstown" (FGS). AJH 175

282      A cowherd's mischief. A sketch reproduced in Dumas, p. 240. "Frensham, Surrey. Sold April 19 '72. FGS" (FGS). AJH 177 

292      Herrings from Banff: fishers clearing their nets. Photo. "Gardenstown. Matthews collection" (FGS). AJH 175. Could be the one dated 1863 sold as "Unloading the catch"(28x42in 70x108cm) 12 May 1978 at Sotheby' s, New York for £273/$500.

1868

48        The lobster catcher."Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall. Sold Ap 24 '75. Mendel sale £1008.10/- FG" (FGS). Probably "Setting lobster pots" dated 1868, (30x44in 75x112cm) sold at Sotheby' s, New York, 16 Dec 1983 for £1072/$1500.

270      The morning after a gale. Untraced. "Coverack Cove, Cornwall" (FGS).

434      Are chimney-sweepers black? Engraved for Stephens, p. 15. "Bedruthan Steps, Cornwall. Sold £ 1176 April 27 '87. Mr. Holbrook Gaskett's Woolters, Liverpool. FGS" (FGS).

1869

124      Cottagers making cider. 42 x 66. Private collection, Somerset . "Churt. Matthews Collection" (FGS). A painting called "Cottagers making cider" (42x66in 104x168cm), initialled and dated 72, was sold at Sotheby' s, London, 19 Nov 1969 for £850.

217      The boat
"It served them for kitchen and parlour and all." "Near Wick" (FGS).

332      Caught by the tide. 27 1/2 x 42 1/2. Guildhall Art Gallery, London. "Coldingham. Sold £1071 May 3 '79. FGS" (FGS).

1870

93        Fish from the Doggerbank. 30 x 54 1/2. Birmingham City Art Gallery. "Schevening, Holland" (FGS). AJH179, 235

158      Brimming Holland. Photo. Reproduced in Portfolio for 1871, f.p. 181. Etched. "Dort. Etched by the artist for separate publication. Autotyped in Portfolio 1871. Matthews collection" (FGS). San Francisco has etching. AJH 180, 183, 266-7

1022    Sea earnings. Untraced.

Not RA           Small copy of "Sea earnings", 17 x 26 1/2. Aberdeen City Art Gallery. Macdonald collection. Exhib. Aberdeen 1873. Sheffield Mappin Art Gallery on "Victorian Painting, 1837-1890," 1968. Info on cleaning, etc. AJH 186

1871

153      A thorn. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. "Tilford, Surrey. River" (FGS). See notes from gallery. Rev. Athenaeum. AJH 181

163      Salmon trappers: Norway. Untraced. "Fjord, Os. Begun 1st August 1870" (FGS).

590      Norwegian haymakers. 32 1/2 x 54. Private collection (Bethel). "Sunde" (FGS).

1161    Market girls on a fjord. "Os. Painted close to boat as it was being made. Price complete £ 2.10" (FGS). [The price of the boat, that is, not the painting. See Life].

1872

196      The oyster severals of Hampshire. Photo. "A Creek, Emsworth. Price Collection" (FGS). AJH 183. Sold (19x32in 48x81cm) at Sotheby's, London, 15 Oct 1969 for £260.

265      Gold of the sea. Photo. Mouth Mill, "Near Clovelly. Mr. Untheimer's [?] collection" (FGS). AJH 182

387      Between the tides. Photo. "Near Clovelly. Price Collection" (FGS)

390      "As jolly as a sand-boy". Reproduced in Fenn, 162 (Bethel). "Bedruthen. Engraved in Magazine of Art. In Mr. John Foster's collection" (FGS).

1873

20        The fishing haven. Photo. "Colliston, Aberdeenshire" (FGS)

35        Song and accompaniment
"I cast my line in Largo Bay,
And fishes I caught nine;
They're three to roast, and three to boil,
And three to bait the line."
Photo. "Colliston" (FGS).

Not RA           Copy of "Song and Accompaniment", 1876. 5 1/2 x 9 1/2. Brighton Art Gallery. "Colliston" (FGS).

227      Fishing by proxy      
"A modern master of cormorants at work in a Surrey stream. A small strap is fastened round the neck of the bird to keep the fish in the jugular pouch, from which the sports-man obliges the cormorant to disgorge the live prey from time to time."
"Tilford. Landscape. Portrait of Capt. Salvin" (FGS). AJH 192 . Sold (130x55in 330x140cm) at Christie' s, Kensington, 31 Aug 1983.  

Not RA           Small copy of "Fishing by proxy," 48.3 x 89.7 cm. Aberdeen City Art Gallery. Macdonald collection.

254      The Bonxie, Shetland. 29 x 44.

"They who are about to rob their nests, hold a knife or other sharp instrument over their heads, upon which the enraged bird precipitates and transfixes itself " Bewick.  Guildhall Art Gallery, London. "Gallery of the corporation of London. Garrick bequest. The bonxie is the skua gull." AJH 193                           

1874

14        Kelpburners, Shetland. Untraced. Etched.

26        Under the lee of a rock. Untraced. "Near Gwithian, Cornwall" (FGS).

232      Cow tending. Etched (Bethel no. 13). "Surrey. Price Collection" (FGS). Sold at Christie's, 2004.

375      Jetsam and flotsam. Private collection, London.

1875

47        Hearts of oak
". . . that England, hedged in with the main,
That water-walled bulwark, still secure
And confident from foreign purposes."
'King John,' act ii. sc. 1.
37 x 56. Nottingham Art Gallery."Muchalls, Kincardiganshire" (FGS).

256      Wise saws.
"Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen." - Richard II, IV, i.
Etched (Bethel no. 8) "Churt. Etched by the artist" (FGS). Commentary by Ruskin, "Academy Notes."

308      Land of Cuyp. Reproduced in Stephens, 8, with an incorrect title. Also etched (Bethel no. 8). "River. Dort. Reproduced in Modern Artists. £1000 FGS" (FGS). "Land [or Birthplace] of Cuyp," AJH 180, 205, 266-7

439      The samphire gatherer
"And dizzy 'tis to cast one's eyes so low."  - King Lear.
Photo. "Near Gwithian" (FGS).

1876

44        Seaside ducks. Reproduced in Stephens, f.p. 8. Stephens says "From the picture in possession of Henry Jenkins, Esq." "Hope Cove" (FGS).

186      A little blue bay. Photo. "Hallsands, Devon" (FGS). Sold (19x32in 49x81cm) at Christie' s, Kensington 5 Aug 1986 for £1600.

Not RA.          A painting similar to above, but with a different figure composition in the foreground. Orchar Gallery, Dundee. Hallsands. See AJH, p. xl. AJH 212.

234      Crabbers. 30 x 51. Manchester City Art Gallery, purchased 1904. "Hope Cove, Devon" (FGS).

498      "Hard lines". 30 x 51 1/4. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Ref for letter from the artist to John Mallinson of 3 June 1886. Sketch for background reproduced in Palmer. There's a photo of Hook's fishing accessories in Mary Hook Pickersgill's Sketch Album now in Barber Institute, Birmingham. Gives provenance. "Hallsands" (FGS).

1877

126      Word from the missing. 30 1/2 x 51. Guildhall Art Gallery, London. FGS's list says "Hallsands. Gallery of the Corporation of London. Gassiot [?] bequest" (FGS).

182      A gull catcher. 47x37" 119x94cm Belonged to R.M. Spencer, Lanton Hall, Leic. A picture of this name sold at Christie' s 16 May 1986 (Mellon Centre). Sold at Christie' s, London, 13 Feb 1987, for £2400. Brighton Art Gallery

337      "He shot a fine shoot" - Shakespeare. Reproduced in Blackburn's Academy Notes for for 1877 (Bethel). "Churt. Still life with ..." (FGS).

380      Friends in rough weather.
"In some of the small fishing villages on the coast of Devon, dogs are trained to swim through the surf to boats returning in rough weather, and bring to land a rope by which those on shore haul the boats to the beach."
Untraced. "Hallsands" (FGS). AJH 214

Not RA           The Milkmaid of Maas. 20 x 32 3/4. Signed and dated JCH 1877. Aberdeen City Art Gallery.

Not RA           La Vendemmia, Sarzana. Painted 1877 (Life 223). Now in two halves, private collections, Croydon and Wales. AJH 220-3

Not RA           Castle and Harbour of Lerici. Life 223. Untraced..

1878

351      The coral fisher: Amalfi
"You do as chapmen do,
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy." - Shakespeare. "Sold May 30 1882. £1155. FGS" (FGS). AJH 224. Sold (24x36in 19x137cm) at Sotheby Belgravia, 8 Mar 1979 for £300.

1879

269      "Little to earn and many to keep". 36 1/2 x 54 1/2. Dundee City Art Gallery. "Sea. Portsoy Banffshire" (FGS).

275      Mushroom gatherers. "Portsoy. Etched by the artist" (FGS). Note added to Bethel's listing:"Sold at Christie's to Gowrie for £950 July 16 1976. Sold with proper title, virtually the same dimensions, Sotheby Belgravia 20 Mar 1979 for £2600. Sold again, Sotheby's Belgravia, 15 Dec 1981 (Mellon Centre). Etched, Bethel list no. 11.

Not RA           Small copy of Mushroom Gatherers 7 3/4 X 9 3/4. (18.6 X 24.8 cm.) Aberdeen City Art Gallery.

493      Tanning nets: witches and cauldrons from the Macbeth country. 31 x 48 3/4 (79.9 x 125.8 cm.) Aberdeen City Art Gallery. From Alexander Macdonald. "Portsoy. Sea" (FGS).

1880

59        "King Baby": the white sands of Iona. Reproduced in Stephens, f.p. 24.

66        Home with the tide. 35 x 55.  Tate Gallery. "Findochtie" (FGS).

261      Sea-pools. Untraced. "Iona" (FGS).

356      Mussel-gardens. Untraced. "Findochtie" (FGS).

1881

192      The nearest way to School. Reproduced in Dumas f.p. 234 (Bethel). Etched (Bethel no. 17). Stephens says it was painted at Sennen, Cornwall, nr. Land's End.

258      Diamond merchants: Cornwall. Reproduced in Stephens, 3. Land' s End, Sennen.

489      Past work.
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.' - Ecclesiastes i. 4.
"Hallsands, Devon" (FGS). Probably "Fisherman at rest" s.d. 1881 (22x35in 55x90cm) sold at Maynard's, Vancouver, for £897/Cn$1471 3 Dec 1996;  then as "Sailor's rest" (same dimensions) at Sotheby's, London, 25 Nov 1997 for £2000. See full description by F.G. Stephens, "A Modern Private Collection," Art Journal 1888, 121-4.

Not RA           Sketch of a man's head (James Black). 29.1 x 22.9 cm. Signed and dated 1881. Alexander Macdonal collection. Aberdeen City Art Gallery.

Not RA           At Kyleakin, Skye. Unexhibited, but signed and dated JCH '81. 10 1/4 x 19 1/4, or 26.8 x 49.6 cm. Aberdeen City Art Gallery. Alexander Macdonald collection.

Not RA           Another painting very like the above, and probably same place, same year, with same little white house in both. No signature or date, so perhaps unfinished? Private collection.

1882

123      Castle building. Photo. Kyleakin, Skye. Original untraced.

Not RA           Salmon, Skye. Also shows Castle Moil, Kyleakin. Original untraced.

303      "Caller herrin".  Reproduced in Stephens, 13. Etched, Bethel no. 18.

Not RA           "Ill blows the wind that profits nobody". According to Life (xli), painted expressly for the Fine Arts Society Sea exhibition, 1881 (Bethel).

308      Devon harvest cart: the last handful home. Reproduced in Stephens, f.p.1. "...bridge. Mr. Price's collection" (FGS).

1883

28        Catching a mermaid. I have color repro. National Maritime Museum. Has been used as card. Engraved for the Art Journal 1888, f.p. 97. Parodied by Furniss in Punch, May 1883. Sold (36x55in 91x139cm) at Christie's, London, 25 Nov 1983 for £1500. Full description by Stephens in Art Journal 1888, 124.
Note: "Between Nos. 28 and 36 hung No. 29 [?] on the line ninth gallery, the portrait of Mr. Hook by Mr. Millais" (FGS).

36        Love lightens toil.
"As looks the mother on her lowly babe." I Henry VI, III, iii.
"Mullion [?] Cornwall"(FGS). Possibly sold (36x24in 91x61cm) as "Pretty fishergirl," mono dated 1864, at Bonhams, London, 5 May 1977 for £340.

324      The wily angler
"But bite the perch will, and that very boldly." - Izaak Walton.
Colour photo, Witt Library. Etched (Bethel's list no. 18). "Surrey. In Mr. Price's collection" (FGS). The Panelli Rally Collection (Witt Library).

331      Carting for "Farmer Pengelly". 34 x 55 3/4. Leicester City Art Gallery. Photo. "Mullion [?], Cornwall."

1884

81        Wild harbourage. Photo. "Sennen."

346      The mirror of the sea-mew. "Sennen. This picture given to Mr. Millais in exchange for his portrait of Mr. Hook" (FGS). Reproduced in Stephens, f.p. 4 (Bethel). Sold (34x55in 86x140cm) at Christie' s, Kensington, for £6000.

352      Catching sand-launce
"At low tide the fisher-girls sweep the wet sand with small blunt sickles."

Photograph, private collection. "Gorran Haven [?], Cornwall" (FGS).

1885

140      The stream. 36 1/4 x 59 1/2. "Purchased by the President and Council of  the Royal Academy under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest" says the list in Life. Now in the Tate Gallery. AJH 254

146      "After dinner rest a while"
"The hote cormeraunt ful of glotony."
"Sennen. In the Duke of Westminster's collection" (FGS).

202      The close of day. 40 x 60 1/2. Private collection, Sevenoaks.
"The weary sun hath made a golden set."
40 x 60 1/2. "Sennen" (FGS).

270      "Yo, heave ho". Reproduced in Stephens, f.p. 20 (Bethel). "Sennen" (FGS).

Not RA           Self portrait. 34.5 x 29.7 cm. Aberdeen Art Gallery. Alexander Macdonald collection. See Life 249 ff. (which suggests different date). Bethel dates it at 1895.

1886

60        Sea daisies.
"While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,
And stick musk roses in thy sleek smooth head,
And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy."
42 1/2 x 56 1/4, or 104.9 x 143.8 cm. Aberdeen Art Gallery. James Murray collection. "Sennen" (FGS).

65        The broken oar
"Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave."
Photo. "Sennen [?]"(FGS).

276      The salmon pool. Photo. "Devonshire" (FGS).

927      An undergraduate. Photo. "Sennen" (FGS)

924      Gathering limpets. 20 x 33 1/2. Diploma Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London. "Sennen. The present diploma picture" (FGS). AJH 302.

1887

292      Fresh from the waves. Photo. Morfa Nefyn, Carnarvonshire.

299      Young dreams. 41 3/4 x 56. Tate Gallery, London. Morfa Nefyn, Carnarvonshire. AJH 257

583      Tickling trout. 20 x 39 inches. "On the Tamar, Devon. Upright landscape" (FGS). Private collection. AJH 256

772      Searching the crab-holes. Photo. "E. Sennen. In Mr. C G...'s collection" (FGS). AJH 126, mistakenly says it's the diploma painting.

[Re 1887 paintings: See Watts letter of 9 April about the hanging of R.A. Ex. "There are great gaps - No Watts - no Ned Jones ... Poynter ... Millais (in strictest confidence) a dreadfully theatrical and tasteless Huguenot subject - Nevertheless the Exhibition will be distinctly a good one - Hook is splendid - Holl very fine - Herkomer good ..." Letter in Watts' Gallery. Quoted in Ormond, Lord Leighton, 106. We don't know which Hook he particularly admired.]

1888

32        Low tide gleanings. Photo. (No more comments on FGS's list).

148      The bauble boat
"The sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail?" Troilus and Cressida, I.iii.
24x39in 60x99cm, Sennen. Sold at Christie' s London, 21 Jul 1978 for £800. Private collection, Sevenoaks.

160      The feast of the osprey. 24 x 39 inches. Private collection. AJH 268

1889

19        The Seaweed Raker. 28 1/2 x 48 1/2, Sennen. Tate Gallery, London. I have colour repro.

32        The fowler's pool. 28 x 48 inches. Near Sennen, Oct 1888 (Diary).Private collection.

249      Wreckage from the Fruiter. 35 1/2 x 60 1/2. Tate Gallery, London. I have colour repro. AJH 268. Probably painted at Sennen, Aug/Sept 1888 (Diary).

1890

75        Last night's disaster. Photo.

249      A jib for the new smack. Private Collection.

309      A Dutch pedlar. Photo. AJH 257. 37x61in 95x156cm. Sold Sotheby' s 2 Nov 1994 for£4000. Sold at Christie' s, London, 13 June 2000, for £9000.

317      Breakfasts for the Porth. 34 1/4 x 54 1/2. Birmingham City Art Gallery.

Not RA           A smaller Breakfasts for the Porth. 28 x 41 1/2. Private collection, Cheltenham.

1891

33        Hit but not bagged. 35 x 56 inches. Private collection.

40        Portrait of the Painter Painted by invitation for the collection of portraits of artists painted by themselves in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. AJH 268

177      Willing helpmates: fishing station on the Maas. Photo.

299      Summer pleasures: "On the beached margent of the sea." Photo. Private collection, Surrey. Hook's grandson Oliver posed as a little boy.

1892

249      Nereids. Photo. Sold (35x53in 88x134cm) at Phillips Son and Neale, London, 14 June 1976 for £700.

255      The sea-mew's nest. Photo. Photograph, Witt Library. Once belonged to Bryan Hook. Exhibited in RA Winter Ed 1908 (188); Rome, International Fine Arts Ed, 1911 (40). Sold (35x52in 89x135cm) at Christie' s, London, 28 Jan 1972, for £350. Sold (virtually same dimensions) at Sotheby' s, London, 28 Nov 1972, for £700. (Doubled in 10 months).

1893

211      Good liquor–duty free. 33 x 54 inches. Private collection.

1894

55        Seed time
"Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destinies obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor." - Gray
Photo.

134      Practising without diploma. Photo. On sale at Sotheby's, London, November 30 2005, as "A rest while gathering blackberries," with the note "may possibly have been exhibited at the R A in 1898, no. 58, entitled "A turn in the lane; blackberries," Sotheby' s, London, Nov 30 2005.

238      Herring-packers: "As honest maids as ever broke bread." 32 x 49 inches. Private collection.

774      Before sundown. Photo.

1895

17        Finnan haddie. Private collection.

245      "Hey, ho, seely sheepe!" Private collection, Kenya.

257      A harvest in the west country. Photo. Private collection, Northumberland (Bethel).  Sold (34x54in 86x137cm) at Sotheby' s, London, 19 Nov 1969 for £850.

Not RA           Self-portrait, as painted for Alexander Macdonald. Bethel dates it 1895, but Aberdeen Art Gallery dates it 1885. See entry there. Rosalie's diary confirms 1895.

1896

48        A dish of prawns. 27 X 44 inches. Private collection

279      Breadwinners of the north. 35 x 54 inches. Private collection.

1897

287      From the shore to the field. Photograph, Witt Library. Sold (27x42in 107x146cm) at Christie' s, Kensington, for £330, 14 July 1976. Sold again at Christie' s, 15 May 1979, for £1000.

308      Allan J. Hook, Esq. 44 x 33 inches. Private collection. AJH 288

340      Low water at the tidal crossing. Private collection. Painted at Gorran Haven.

356      A Dutchman's home. 32 x 57 inches. Private collection.

1898

58        A turn in the lane: blackberries. Untraced.

70        Idlers. Private collection, Crondall, Surrey.
"Their hour-glass was the sea-sand, and the tide, Like her smooth billow, saw their moments glide." - Byron.

271      Trouble with the old muzzle-loader. Private collection.

278      "The sunshine in the happy glens is fair,
And by the sea, and in the brakes.
The grass is cool, the sea-side air
Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers
More virginal and sweet than ours." - Matthew Arnold
Untraced.

1899

14        Waders. Private collection, Sevenoaks.

232      Grist to the mill. Untraced    

244      "Water-cresses". Untraced

665      Bryan Hook, Esq. Untraced (Is surely in the family?) AJH 288

1900

212      The goatherd. 29 x 43. Juliet McMaster.

218      A new coat for an old friend. Untraced.

269      Once bit, twice shy. Untraced.

279      A Surrey trout-stream. Untraced.

1901

34        Mending the trammel. Untraced

39        Seaweed for the garden. Untraced.

218      Cornish pets. Untraced

225      A lonely bay. Untraced.

1902

187      Where the green sea meets the shingle. Untraced.

191      Home from the marshes. Untraced

Other paintings by Hook

Breton peasants on the sands, with ox-cart carrying seaweed (Life xl).

Wiffing for mackerel. Untraced. (Life xl)

Spiller boys. Untraced. (Life xli)

The sand wives. Untraced. (Stephens 32)

The wounded gull. Untraced. (Stephens 32).

Fishing. Cartoon for execution in mosaic for 1862. Victoria and Albert Museum. AJH 289

Christian being armed by the three maidens, Piety, Prudence and Chastity.
This Picture was engraved.

Anne of Geierstein. Painted for an illustration to be used in an edition of the Waverley Novels - Engraved.

Breton peasants on the sands, with ox-cart carrying seaweed.

Wiffing for mackerel. A replica of the above on a slightly smaller scale.

Castle and Harbour of Lerici.

"Ill blows the wind that profits nobody." A man and a girl hauling in wreckage through the surf. This picture was painted for the Exhibition of Marine Pictures got together by the Fine Arts Society. Dec. 1881.

Kyleakin, Isle of Skye. Aberdeen Art Gallery

Spiller Boys. Scene on a sandy beach in Cornwall.

There are also small sketch-replicas of the following exhibited pictures:

The fisherman's "Good night."

Stand Clear.

"Compass'd by the inviolate sea" [1861]