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Myles Tonks (1890 - 1960)
Size:
Height – 33cm x Width – 40.7cm
Provenance: the artist’s daughter
Benefiting from the unrivalled teaching of his uncle,
Henry Tonks, Myles Tonks excelled in painting on-the-spot landscape and
coastal views, responding especially to the rugged scenery of the
Scottish Highlands. According to his great-nephew, he often allowed
himself the comfort of painting through the open window of his
Rolls-Royce, his artist’s materials to hand.
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Painter and draughtsman who was by profession a surgeon, born at
Darley, Warwickshire. Studied at Medway School of Art and with Henry
Tonks. Myles was the only relation with whom Henry cared to talk about
painting and the former Slade Professor left Myles his art books.
Exhibited RA, NEAC, RI, ROI, RHA, PS and elsewhere. Percy V Bradshaw in
his book Water-colour: A Truly English Art illustrates Tonks’ Col de
Lauteret mountainscape in which the artist looked for “translucency,
an unworried paper-surface”, a good example of his work. Lived at
Watchet, Somerset.