Hearts of Oak (painting)

Hearts of Oak is an 1875 genre painting by the British artist James Clarke Hook.Flint p.290 It features a coastal scene with a fisherman carving a wooden ship for a boy. The title makes reference to the patriotic song Heart of Oak, associated with the Royal Navy.McMaster p.179

It as displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1875 at Burlington House in London with a quote from Shakespeare's King John.Payne p 31-32 Today it forms part of the collection of Nottingham Castle, which acquired it in 1913."Hearts of Oak" artuk.org. Retrieved May 18, 2026.

References

Bibliography Flint, Kate. The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. Cambridge University Press, 2000. McMaster, Juliet. James Clarke Hook: Painter of the Sea. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. Payne, Christiana. Where the Sea Meets the Land: Artists on the Coast in Nineteenth-century Britain. Sanson, 2007.