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Henry Tonks (1862 - 1937) was a surgeon before taking up a career in art. He was
born in Solihull, educated in Bristol and studied medicine in Brighton and London.
From 1888 he took evening art classes at Westminster School of Art; by 1892 he
had begun teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he became an influential
instructor to the likes of Stanley Spencer, Augustus John and Paul Nash. During
World War I he resumed his career as a surgeon and famously created a series of pastel
drawings of facial injury cases. By 1918 Tonks had became an official War Artist
touring the Western Front with John Singer Sargent; in 1919, he visited Archangel,
Russia. Post-war he continued as Slade Professor of Fine Art. He died at his home in
Chelsea, London in 1937.
born in Solihull, educated in Bristol and studied medicine in Brighton and London.
From 1888 he took evening art classes at Westminster School of Art; by 1892 he
had begun teaching at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he became an influential
instructor to the likes of Stanley Spencer, Augustus John and Paul Nash. During
World War I he resumed his career as a surgeon and famously created a series of pastel
drawings of facial injury cases. By 1918 Tonks had became an official War Artist
touring the Western Front with John Singer Sargent; in 1919, he visited Archangel,
Russia. Post-war he continued as Slade Professor of Fine Art. He died at his home in
Chelsea, London in 1937.