Artist

Walter Fryer Stocks

Walter Fryer Stocks is a British Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Walter Fryer Stocks painted quiet, detailed scenes in watercolor during the 1860s, a time when British art prized crisp realism over bold color. His 1866 work *The Last Gleam* shows a lone figure bathed in the last light of day, its careful edges and muted tones typical of the period. Stocks left no letters or diaries, so we know him only through the brush. Tap *The Last Gleam* to see this sliver of Victorian evening glow.

Works by Walter Fryer Stocks

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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