Henry Scott Tuke

Henry Scott Tuke, RA RWS , was an English 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 and Maria Strickney . In 1859 the family moved to Falmouth, where Daniel Tuke, a physician, established a practice. Tukes sister and biographer, Maria Tuke Sainsbury , 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 Sharpss Quaker school in WestonsuperMare, and remained there until he was sixteen.

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