Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1902
Tonks, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1902
Born(1862-04-09)9 April 1862
Solihull, England
Died8 January 1937(1937-01-08) (aged 74)
Chelsea, London, England
OccupationArtist

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.

He was one of the first British artists to be influenced by the French Impressionists; he exhibited with the New English Art Club, and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian Britain, including James McNeill Whistler, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent and George Clausen.