Tudor St George Tucker (28 April 1862 – 21 December 1906)[1] was an English painter who spent a large part of his short life in Australia. He was best known for his landscapes and portraits of women.
He returned to Europe in 1887, where he joined his friend, E. Phillips Fox at the Académie Julian and, later, at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris; winning a gold medal. He was a regular visitor to the Etaples art colony, where he produced his first major works. His debut exhibition at the Salon came in 1891. The following year, he went back to Melbourne, set up a studio in Flinders Street and, from 1893 to 1899, ran the Melbourne School of Art together with Fox.,[2] where the students included Ina Gregory (1874-1964), Bertha Merfield, Ambrose Patterson and Violet Teague, many of whom attended their summer schools at Charterisville.[3]
The Australian climate did little or nothing for his failing health, so he decided to return home to London in 1899, working in a studio at Chelsea, and had two paintings in the 1900 Royal Academy exhibition, two in 1901 and one in 1902. He also exhibited in Liverpool and Birmingham. Tucker died on 21 December 1906 of tuberculosis in London.[2] He suffered much from his ill health and painted relatively little, so his work is little known. He did some good painting in oils which found more favour with other artists than with the public.
^"Tudor St. George Tucker". National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
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^McCulloch, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968 ISBN0-09-081420-7
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