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. An example of his controvertial subject matter is his masterwork, Ruby, Gold, and Malachite, which I also offer reproductions of for sale.

Ruby, Gold and Malachite

In the late 1880s, Henry Scott Tuke met Oscar Wilde and became part of the Uranian circle of poets and writers who celebrated the adolescent male. Gently homoerotic, his paintings typically depict boys and young men swimming, diving, and lounging, usually in the nude, on a boat, or on the beach - as in his work Nude Boy, which I also offer reproductions of for sale in my store.

Nude Boy

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. I have also created a reproduction of his painting, Orange Jersey.

Orange Jersey

Tuke 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. I have also produced a fine art print of his painting August Blue, painted in 1894.

August Blue

Best known now for his nudes in the open air and bathing pictures, Tuke was also a portraitist much in demand before WWI, and an unsurpassed painter of ships. Below are some of his better known works, all of which I offer reproductions of - you can click on the pictures below to be taken to my store.

Bathing Group

Hermes

And, following, some additional paintings of Tuke's which I have not yet reproduced for sale.

Youth in White Trousers

Charlie Mitchell