Henry Tonks
Painting, Visual Artist
1862 – 1937
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Who was Henry Tonks?
Henry Tonks, FRCS was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher.
He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists; he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian Britain, including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen.
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- Born
- Apr 9, 1862
Birmingham - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Westminster School of Art
- Died
- Jan 8, 1937
London
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on July 23, 2013
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