Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He was an influential art teacher and a surgeon.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.
Tonks was born in Birmingham. After being educated at Clifton College, he studied medicine at Brighton (1882–85) and London Hospital (1885–1888). After qualifying he became a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London; but from 1888 he studied under Frederick Brown at Westminster School of Art in the evenings.

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks