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]