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Henry Tonks

1862–1937

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Biography

Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) 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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  • The Toilet

    Henry Tonks
    exhibited 1914
  • Auguste Rodin

    Henry Tonks
    1914
  • Madame Rodin

    Henry Tonks
    1914
  • A Girl’s Head

    Henry Tonks
    exhibited 1903
  • A Girl with a Parrot

    Henry Tonks
    c.1893
  • Portrait of the Artist

    Henry Tonks
    1909
  • Rosamund and the Purple Jar

    Henry Tonks
    exhibited 1900
  • Summer

    Henry Tonks
    1908
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  • Portrait of the Artist

    Henry Tonks
    1909
  • Annual Banquet: A Suggestion to the New English Art Club

    Sir Max Beerbohm
    1913
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  • Saturday Night in the Vale

    Henry Tonks
    1928–9
  • The New English Art Club

    Sir Max Beerbohm
    1907
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