Lot 908: Circle of Henry Tonks FRCS 1862-1937- The art

Circle of Henry Tonks FRCS 1862-1937- The art class; oil on canvas, laid down on board, 102x140cm. Note: One of the first English artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists. He was an associate to many of the more progressive artists living and working in England at the end of the late 19th century including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen. From 1892 he taught at the Slade School of Art , from 1918 as Slade Professor of Fine Art , where he became "the most renowned and formidable teacher of his generation". His Pupils at the Slade included William Lionel Clause, Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, Augustus John, Mukul Dey, Gwen John, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Stanley Spencer, Rex Whistler, Mark Gertler, David Bomberg, and Isaac Rosenberg.