Henry Scott Tuke
The great American painter Edward Hopper famously once said that all he ever wanted to do was “paint sunlight on the side of a house”. Born 24 years previously on 12 June 1858, the Yorkshire-born artist Henry Scott Tuke had similarly modest aims. His one over-arching ambition in life, however, was to capture the effects of sunlight on skin.
Tuke achieved this arguably more successfully than any other artist of his generation. A comprehensive new exhibition at Surrey’s Watts Gallery, titled simply , covers all aspects of his portfolio, yet it is his paintings of boys and young men, lounging topless on boats and rocks in the
