The Works of Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929)Henry Scott Tuke was a native of Cornwall who died in 1929 at the age of seventy-one years. His twin abiding loves were the sea and boys. These loves and his art caused quite a stir in Victorian and Edwardian England, but he was nonetheless a member of the Royal Academy.In the late 1880s,British artist Henry Scott Tuke met Oscar Wilde and became part of theUranian circle of poets and writers who celebrated the adolescent male.Gently homoerotic, his paintings typically depict boys and young menswimming, diving, and lounging, usually in the nude, on a boat or on thebeach. Henry Scott Tuke painted portraits and ships in his early years and worked in both oils and watercolours with equal facility. Mr. Tuke belonged to the open-air school of painters, and was one of the famous Cornish artists. The young artist was only twenty-one when his first picture was exhibited in the Royal Academy, and thenceforth his pictures became a feature of many important exhibitions, notably at the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, the Paris Salon, and Munich. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1900. Best known now for his nudes in the open air and bathing pictures, 'he was also a portraitist much in demand before WWI, and an unsurpassed painter of ships. Among his better works are  Ruby, Gold and Malachite, 1902 
      
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