DOI Heft:
No. 27 (June 1895)
DOI Artikel:S., E. B.: Afternoons in studios: Henry Scott Tuke at Falmouth
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0114
Henry Scott Tuke
and white I rarely use, and etching I have never regattas than even in the gold medal Munich had
returned to since I experimented in it during the just bestowed—the very day I was interviewing
Slade period." him. As we strolled back to the quay together,
" Was August Blue, the Chantrey purchase of we met and recognised the sailors familiar enough
1894, painted near here ? " on the walls of the Academy. Then on to the
" Yes," said Mr. Tuke, pointing to the sea boat studio, where the skipper in the studio-cabin
beyond Pendennis Castle; " I painted it out there showed me the first studies of some of his most
from a boat. I have, you know, a floating studio ; important pictures, which had been painted from
you must come out in it. Perseus and Andro- her. This nameless craft has a glass-roofed deck,
meda, the Woodland Bather,
and several others were
painted on a beach behind
that headland; let us stroll
up to it."
Passing Pink Cottage, that,
with its blaze of flowers, car-
nations and gladioli especially,
looks far more like the house
of a coastguard than the abode
of an artist of note, we strolled
under low wind-swept trees
that crown the rocky head-
land of Pennance Point, to
the down at the summit,
where a splendid sweep of
coast was visible, broken by
innumerable coves, some fern-
clad to the water's edge, others
with stern rocks running per-
pendicularly to the close-
cropped turf above.
" You have painted a good
many portraits, have you
not ? "
" A fair number. One, of
my sister, was at the R.A.,
and others have been at the
Grafton and the New Gallery.
The one you saw in my studio
is the latest."
The picture referred to is
a portrait of a lady in even-
ing dress, a beautiful scheme
of pale heliotrope and white,
which is reproduced on this page, and is now and yet sails as splendidly as if it were not con-
hung well at the present Exhibition of the Royal trived to do double duty. Returning (after a run
Academy. to the Manacles), a peep into the Falmouth
So we discussed Art in theory and practice, in a Art Gallery which Mr. Tuke and Mr. Ayerst Ingram
perfectly idyllic landscape, where the problems of have been instrumental in starting, yielded a new
light and atmosphere Mr. Tuke loves to attack pleasure in recognising the truth of his canvases,
were literally in the air. Then by degrees the sea seen side by side, or almost so, with the models
mastered all else, and Mr. Tuke the enthusiastic who had "sat" for them, and the exquisite scenery
painter was lost in the keen boat-lover, who seemed they depict amid which the artist spends the greater
to be more proud perhaps of his prizes in local part of his time. E. B. S.
95
PORTRAIT OF MRS. GEORGE TALBOT BY H. S. TUKE
and white I rarely use, and etching I have never regattas than even in the gold medal Munich had
returned to since I experimented in it during the just bestowed—the very day I was interviewing
Slade period." him. As we strolled back to the quay together,
" Was August Blue, the Chantrey purchase of we met and recognised the sailors familiar enough
1894, painted near here ? " on the walls of the Academy. Then on to the
" Yes," said Mr. Tuke, pointing to the sea boat studio, where the skipper in the studio-cabin
beyond Pendennis Castle; " I painted it out there showed me the first studies of some of his most
from a boat. I have, you know, a floating studio ; important pictures, which had been painted from
you must come out in it. Perseus and Andro- her. This nameless craft has a glass-roofed deck,
meda, the Woodland Bather,
and several others were
painted on a beach behind
that headland; let us stroll
up to it."
Passing Pink Cottage, that,
with its blaze of flowers, car-
nations and gladioli especially,
looks far more like the house
of a coastguard than the abode
of an artist of note, we strolled
under low wind-swept trees
that crown the rocky head-
land of Pennance Point, to
the down at the summit,
where a splendid sweep of
coast was visible, broken by
innumerable coves, some fern-
clad to the water's edge, others
with stern rocks running per-
pendicularly to the close-
cropped turf above.
" You have painted a good
many portraits, have you
not ? "
" A fair number. One, of
my sister, was at the R.A.,
and others have been at the
Grafton and the New Gallery.
The one you saw in my studio
is the latest."
The picture referred to is
a portrait of a lady in even-
ing dress, a beautiful scheme
of pale heliotrope and white,
which is reproduced on this page, and is now and yet sails as splendidly as if it were not con-
hung well at the present Exhibition of the Royal trived to do double duty. Returning (after a run
Academy. to the Manacles), a peep into the Falmouth
So we discussed Art in theory and practice, in a Art Gallery which Mr. Tuke and Mr. Ayerst Ingram
perfectly idyllic landscape, where the problems of have been instrumental in starting, yielded a new
light and atmosphere Mr. Tuke loves to attack pleasure in recognising the truth of his canvases,
were literally in the air. Then by degrees the sea seen side by side, or almost so, with the models
mastered all else, and Mr. Tuke the enthusiastic who had "sat" for them, and the exquisite scenery
painter was lost in the keen boat-lover, who seemed they depict amid which the artist spends the greater
to be more proud perhaps of his prizes in local part of his time. E. B. S.
95
PORTRAIT OF MRS. GEORGE TALBOT BY H. S. TUKE