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Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher .
Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher.
- British
- April 9, 1862
- Solihull, United Kingdom
- January 8, 1937
Jul 1, 2016 · Learn how Henry Tonks, a teacher at Slade School of Art, became a pioneer of facial reconstruction in the Great War. See his pastel studies of men with disfigured faces, done in collaboration with a plastic surgeon.
Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher.
Henry Tonks (1862–1937) IWM (Imperial War Museums) (b Solihull, Warwickshire, 9 Apr. 1862; d London, 8 Jan. 1937). British painter, draughtsman, and teacher. He was interested in art from childhood, and in 1893 he abandoned his successful medical career to become a teacher at the Slade School.
Learn about Henry Tonks, a British artist who taught at Slade Art School and served as a doctor in the First World War. See his self-portraits and portraits of other artists and soldiers.
Henry Tonks, FRCS was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher.
