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Biography of one of the most individualistic member of the Newlyn art colony. ... Read more

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Chapters: Lamorna Birch, Henry Scott Tuke, Jonathon Coudrille, Patrick Heron, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Nicholas Charles Williams, Peter Lanyon, Albert Chevallier Tayler, John Opie, John Dyer, Sam Dodwell, Norman Garstin, Stanhope Forbes, Henry Bone, William Ayerst Ingram. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS (12 June 185813 March 1929), was a British visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men. He was born into a Quaker family in Lawrence Street in York. He was the second son of Daniel Hack Tuke (18271895) and Maria Strickney (18261917). In 1859 the family moved to Falmouth, where Daniel Tuke, a physician, established a practice. Tuke's sister and biographer, Maria Tuke Sainsbury (18611947), was born there. Tuke was encouraged to draw and paint from an early age and some of his earliest drawingsfrom when he was four or five years oldwere published in 1895. In 1870, Tuke joined his brother William at Irwin Sharps's Quaker school in Weston-super-Mare, and remained there until he was sixteen. 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 18811883 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, aft...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=491278 ... Read more