MANNER OF HENRY SCOTT TUKE (1858-1929)
TUG BOAT AND SAILING VESSEL
Watercolour
14.5cm by 22cm
Private collection
Henry Scott Tuke RA RWS (12 June 1858 – 13
March 1929), was an
English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most
notable work was in the Impressionist style.
He was
born into a Quaker family in Lawrence Street in York. In 1859 the family moved
to Falmouth, where where his father, a physician, established a practice.
Tuke's sister and biographer, Maria Tuke Sainsbury (1861–1947).
In 1875,
Tuke enrolled in the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros and Sir Edward
Poynter. Initially his father paid for his tuition but in 1877 Tuke won a
scholarship, which allowed him to continue his training at the Slade and in
Italy in 1880. From 1881 to 1883 he was in Paris where he met Jules
Bastien-Lepage, who encouraged him to paint en plein air. While studying in
France, Tuke decided to move to Newlyn Cornwall where many of his Slade and
Parisian friends had already formed the Newlyn School of painters. He received
several lucrative commissions there, after exhibiting his work at the Royal
Academy of Art in London.
In 1885, Tuke returned to Falmouth where many of
his major works were produced. Tuke became an established artist and was
elected to full membership of the Royal Academy in 1914. Tuke suffered a heart
attack in 1928 and died in March, 1929. Today he is remembered mainly for his
oil paintings of young men, but in addition to his achievements as a figurative
painter, he was an established maritime artist and produced as many portraits
of sailing ships as he did human figures. Tuke was a prolific artist—over 1,300
works are listed and more are still being discovered. More Henry
Scott Tuke
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