A Soldier (possibly T. E. Lawrence) at Newporth Beach, near Falmouth
Henry Scott Augustus Tuke, RA (York 1858 - Falmouth 1929)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1921 - 1922
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
425 x 527 mm (16 3/4 x 20 3/4 in)
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Clouds Hill, Dorset
NT 628439
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Soldier (possibly T. E. Lawrence) at Newporth Beach, near Falmouth by Henry Scott Augustus Tuke (York 1858 - Falmouth 1929),1921-22, signed H. S. Tuke and inscribed with an indistinct date. A Cornwall Royal Garrison Artillary soldier, in khaki, on a beach undoing his bootlaces and another young man already swimming in the sea. The soldier's cap and jacket are on the sand. Possibly begun as a study for 'Morning Splendour', 1921 (private collection) with the figure retouched in 1922 to resemble T.E. Lawrence. Listed in Tuke’s Register of Paintings as 'Picture of "Gray"' and sold to R.F.C. Scott (probably a pseudonym for the poet Sydney Lomer (1880-1926)) for 25 guineas and then bought by "Gray" after Scott's death in 1926. Gray may be a pseudonym for Lawrence.
Provenance
Sold as as "Portrait of 'Gray'" to ' R.F.C. Scott', who is believed to be Sydney Lomer (1880-1926); bought or given to T.E.Lawrence in 1926 with its companion, 'Small bathing picture' which was given by him to Clare Sydney Smith; at Clouds Hill at the time of T. E. Lawrence's death in 1935; given to the National Trust with the house by Mr A. W. Lawrence, as a memorial to his brother, in 1937
Credit line
Clouds Hill, The T. E. Lawrence Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: bottom right: H.S. TUKE 1922 (no longer legible as such as possibly tampered by artist) (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Henry Scott Augustus Tuke, RA (York 1858 - Falmouth 1929), artist
References
Charles Grosvenor, An Iconography: The Portraits of T. E. Lawrence, Pasadena 1988, pp.114 - 15 no. 53
