Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Under Canvas by David Wainwright, Catherine Dinn ISBN 187075802 instant download

Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Under Canvas by David Wainwright, Catherine Dinn ISBN 187075802 instant download

Born into a Quaker medical family, Henry Scott Tuke studied painting at the Slade under Edvvard Poynter and won the Slade scholarship, allowing him to travel abroad to France and to Italy. In Paris he met Sargent, who became a lifelong friend, and in Florence, Arthur Lemon, who was to introduce him to plein air painting. On returning to France he became part of the expatriate artists colony led by Binge and Alexander Harrison, who broke new ground by pursuading child-models to pose nude out of doors. In Tukes own words this 'seemed to open up fresh vistas and certainly gave new interest to the study of the undraped figure'. Later, Tuke was to define his ideal subject as the nude in the open air and his bathing pictures are what he is now best known for. He was also a portraitist much in demand before the First World War, and an unsurpassed painter of ships, which were perhaps his greatest passion. Although a frequent traveller throughout his life. Tuke was always to return to Falmouth. Originally intending to settle in Newlyn. Tuke found the artistic colony there, numbering some twenty-seven artists too 'organised', and decided to move to Falmouth, renting two jolly tho' bare rooms looking out to sea. Tuke stressed his affiliation with Newlyn. though 'we consider ourselves a quite distinct branch of the brotherhood'. He converted a French brigantine, the Julie of Nantes, into a floating studio and found an inexhaustible supply of boy models tor his bathing pictures in the quay scamps who thronged the harbour and beaches of Falmouth. These pictures, The Bathers, The Swimmers Pool and Ruby Gold and Malachite, became a genre peculiarlv his own, and though they periodically shocked the artistic establishment, Tuke remained a popular artist frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society, and the Nineteenth Century Art Society, and was a founder-member of the New Fnglish Art Club. He was elected to full membership of the Academy in 1914. Tuke die