[3] In April 1823, Bock was found guilty at the Warwick Assizes of administering drugs to a young woman (his mistress, whose fetus he wished to abort) and sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), arriving in January 1824 aboard the Asia.

But according to Henry Allport, a close contemporary of Bock's, it was his crayon works which produced the happiest results as it was in this medium that he best captured the character of the sitter.

[2] As early as October 1843 Bock was taking daguerreotypes in Hobart even though the licence to use the process in Australia was at this time held by George Baron Goodman.

[5] Bock clearly maintained his interest in photography as in 1849 he was advertising that he had completed his arrangements for taking portrait daguerreotypes from his studio at 22 Campbell Street.

His official work produced private commissions, and by the time of his death in Hobart, Tasmania, he was a successful portraitist specialising in miniatures.