Gustav Brock

Gustav Frederick Brock (c. 1881 – 1945) was a portrait painter, portrait miniature artist, and an expert on the hand coloring of motion pictures. He was the son of the Danish painter Gustav Brock (1849–1887).

He was born in San Francisco and educated in Copenhagen, at the Royal Academy in Dresden and later in Paris with M.A.F. Gorguet.

In 1910 he was the sole representative for Denmark at the International Art Exhibition at Buenos Aires. This exhibition included an official portrait of the Queen of Denmark which was later awarded a silver medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915 where Brock was again the sole representative for Denmark.

Personal life He was the son of the Danish uniform painter Gustav Brock (1849–1887). He first married Else Cecilie Emilie Nielsen (1985 -1930) in 1903 and had a son, Gustav Lave Brock in 1904. After they divorced around the year 1909 he remarried in 1915 and went to America with his new wife Else Bardentfleth Brock. Else Cecilie Emilie Nielsen later married Ove Krak, the son of Thorvald Krak.