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Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) was born in York in a Quaker family, and came to live in Falmouth in 1860. 
Important British impressionist painter, Tuke was also a photographer; he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men. His father was a doctor who became an early pioneer in mental health and wrote several important books on the subject which are still used today by students. In 1875 Tuke enrolled in the Slade School of Art, in 1880 was 
in Italy, from 1881 to 1883 was in Paris. While studying in France he decided to move to Newlyn Cornwall and remain there for the rest of his life, he had his own gallery which he ran with his friend the painter Ayerst Ingram. After an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London, Tuke started to receive commissions; he was a prolific painter with more than 1.300 known works, in 1914 was elected membership of the Royal Academy. After the early paintings with mythological subjects, Henry Tuke began to paint local boys fishing and swimming in a more naturalistic style; he painted some female nudes but these were not as successful as his male nude paintings. Although Tuke's paintings of nude youths undoubtedly appealed to his gay friends and art-buyers, they are never explicitly sexual; he was also 
an important maritime artist and 
portraitist. Works by Henry Scott Tuke are in public art collections across the world including at Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane in Australia, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand and Munich, Germany as well as throughout the UK and Ireland.
Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) was born in York in a Quaker family, and came to live in Falmouth in 1860. 
Important British impressionist painter, Tuke was also a photographer; he is probably best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men. His father was a doctor who became an early pioneer in mental health and wrote several important books on the subject which are still used today by students. In 1875 Tuke enrolled in the Slade School of Art, in 1880 was 
in Italy, from 1881 to 1883 was in Paris. While studying in France he decided to move to Newlyn Cornwall and remain there for the rest of his life, he had his own gallery which he ran with his friend the painter Ayerst Ingram. After an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art in London, Tuke started to receive commissions; he was a prolific painter with more than 1.300 known works, in 1914 was elected membership of the Royal Academy. After the early paintings with mythological subjects, Henry Tuke began to paint local boys fishing and swimming in a more naturalistic style; he painted some female nudes but these were not as successful as his male nude paintings. Although Tuke's paintings of nude youths undoubtedly appealed to his gay friends and art-buyers, they are never explicitly sexual; he was also 
an important maritime artist and 
portraitist. Works by Henry Scott Tuke are in public art collections across the world including at Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane in Australia, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand and Munich, Germany as well as throughout the UK and Ireland.
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