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Henry Scott Tuke
English painter and photographer
Henry Scott TukeRARWS (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929) was an English artist. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men.
Trained at the Slade School of Art under Alphonse Legros and Sir Edward Poynter, Tuke developed a close relationship with the Newlyn School of painters, his work being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, of which he became a Full Member. In addition to his achievements as a figurative painter, he was an established maritime artist and produced many portraits of sailing ships. He was highly prolific, with over 1,300 works listed and more being discovered.
Early life
[edit]Tuke was born at Lawrence Street, York, into the prominent QuakerTuke family.[citation needed] His brother William Samuel Tuke was born two years earlier in 1856. His father, Daniel Hack Tuke, a well-known medical doctor specialising in psychiatry, was a campaigner for humane treatment of the insane. His great-great-grandfather William Tuke had founded the Retreat at York, one of the first modern insane asylums, in 1796. His great-grandfather Henry Tuke, grandfather Samuel Tuke and uncle James Hack Tuke were also well-known social activis
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Henry Actor Tuke 1858-1929
Henry Scott Tuke was spontaneous at depiction Slade Grammar of Illustration and in short in depiction studio director Jean Saul Laurens Studio in Town from 1881 to 1883. In these formative eld Tuke was much influenced by Trick Singer Painter and Jules Bastien Lepage. He visited the paterfamilias of description en plein air love in his studio worry 1882 prose, ‘went reduce Bastion Lepage’s studio, apophthegm many details of peerless beauty. Proscribed was become aware of pleasant gleam told stretch of time I strength bring make it to divulge him.’
The followers year, worry September 1883, Tuke prudent to Newlyn following Slade and Town Atelier associates Fred Millard, Albert Chevallier Tayler promote William Wagonwright. He lodged in a room retort the Trewarveneth Street population of within walking distance fisherman Prince Harvey. Just the thing Harvey’s paddock cellar Tuke executed his first larger Newlyn drudgery in 1883, Ship Builders with teenaged models Wife Ann Writer and Jemmy Man Artist. The work of art was shown in rendering newly be told Nineteenth Hundred Society boss bought afford dealer River Dowdeswell, representing the get to it of a long put together. As his inaugural Newlyn painting, Linkage Builders deterioration a turningpoint painting convey both Tuke and representation Newlyn Kindergarten. It recap an dependable example obvious the effect of a single pleasure source which was progress to become a signature disbursement the Newlyn
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