Henry Tonks

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One of the first English 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 England including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen. From 1892 he taught at the Slade School of Art, (from 1918 as Slade Professor of Fine Art) where he became "the most renowned and formidable teacher of his generation"." [http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t2.e3491 Tonks, Henry] " "The Oxford Dictionary of Art". Ed. Ian Chilvers. Oxford University Press, 2004.] Pupils of Tonks at the Slade included William Lionel Clause, [ [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U223830, CLAUSE, William Lionel] in "Who Was Who 1920–2007" online, accessed 6 May 2008] Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, Augustus John, Mukul Dey, Gwen John, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, and Isaac Rosenberg.Lynda Morris, " [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36535 Tonks, Henry (1862–1937)] ", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 23 Aug 2007]

As a qualified surgeon, from 1916 to 1918 Tonks worked for Harold Gillies producing watercolours recording facial injury cases at Aldershot and the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup [ [http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v187/n8/full/4800298a2.html VH Ward, 'Henry Tonks - The Facial Injury Artist'] , British Dental Journal, VOLUME 187, NO. 8, OCTOBER 23 1999] , a contribution recognised in the exhibitions "Faces of Battle" at the National Army Museum in 2008 [ [http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/pages/facesOfBattle.shtml Faces of Battle site] ] and "Henry Tonks: Art and Surgery" at the Strang Print Room in 2002. [ [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/uclart/publications.html Catalogue details for "Henry Tonks: Art and Surgery"] ]

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