Helen Frazer Rock
Born 1878
Died 16 October 1932
Active: 1904 - 1932
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Wimbledon, Surrey (London). She was the daughter of Joseph Rock (born c.1837 in Hayes, Middlesex), an East India Agent and a director of a mining company. Helen and her sisters attended Wimbledon High School. From 1904-7 she studied at the Royal Academy Schools where she obtained several prizes (see below). Known places where Rock exhibited are: the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.
This record includes information submitted by Kelly Jones, Archivist of Wimbledon High School.
Wealth at death: £1,367 3s. 7d.
Probate date: 13 December 1932
Works
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The Goblin
1909 (Presumed)
Locations
Address 34 Holland Park Road London | View on map
1909 (Presumed)
Address 4 Lansdowne Road Wimbledon | View on map
1909 - 1932
More precisely at this address in 1909 and from 1919.
Address 53 Holland Park Road London | View on map
1910 - 1916
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Tenth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1910
'Sleep'
Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1913
'Mother Wings'
Exhibited at The Eighty-Third Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1909-1910
'The Goblin'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1909 - 1923
Exhibited 6 times, one or two works each year (last showing may have been posthumous as marked deceased c. 1923).
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1904 (Presumed) - 1907 (Presumed)
Awarded a second prize silver medal for a model of a bust from the life, in 1904. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1904', (1905), p. 24. In 1906, Rock won a first prize silver medal for a model of a bust from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1906', (1907), p. 33. The following year, Rock won a second prize of £15 for a set of four models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1907', (1908), p. 29.
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1913, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W.
1913
pp.22-23.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 657; Folio: 169; Page: 10
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Helen Frazer Rock
Registration Year: 1878
Registration Quarter: Jul-Aug-Sep
Registration district: Kingston
Parishes for this Registration District: View Ecclesiastical Parishes associated with this Registration District
Inferred County: Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 282
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Helen Frazer Rock
Probate Date: 13 Dec 1932
Death Date: 16 Oct 1932
Death Place: Surrey, England
Registry: London, England
Citing this record
'Helen Frazer Rock', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1204585684, accessed 29 Jun 2022]