Henry Scott Tuke, R.A., R.W.S. (1858-1929)

A Holiday

Details

Henry Scott Tuke, R.A., R.W.S. (1858-1929)
A Holiday
signed and dated 'H.S.TUKE 1921' (lower left), signed again and inscribed '... Ex. 1923/A Holiday/H.S. Tuke. R.A./C/o Cole Bros./1 Percy Street. W1' (on a label attached to the backboard)
watercolour
13½ x 9¾ in. (34.2 x 24.8 cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by Wilfred Ellis, the Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge for £18 in May 1925.

Literature

B.D. Price, The Registers of Henry Scott Tuke, Falmouth, 1983, R971.
D. Wainwright and C. Dinn, Henry Scott Tuke 1858-1929 Under Canvas, London, 1989, p.128.

Exhibited

London, Royal Watercolour Society, Winter, 1921 (not traced).
Milan, 1923 (not traced).

Lot Essay

Tuke made a diary entry on 30 April 1925, 'Met Stanley Towsey at Liverpool Street [Station] and [we] took the 10.05 to Cambridge. Met by Donald [Rolph], we repaired to the Fitzwilliam [Museum] and found [Sydney] Cockerell [the curator]. Then strolled about Trinity etc. and lunched at Donald's rooms in Green Street. Wilfred Ellis, Chaplain of Trinity coming in ... Back to Trinity and had tea with Ellis and he decided to buy my watercolour 'Holiday'. Townsey and I left at 7.07 and dined in the train'.
(see B.D. Price, op. cit.).

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