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ALL HANDS TO THE PUMPS
By HENRY SCOTT TUKE

ALL HANDS TO THE PUMPS
By HENRY SCOTT TUKE, A.R.A.
IN THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON

Tuke belongs to the open-air school of painters, and is one of the famous Cornish artists, although, like Arnesby Brown (who divides his year between the Duchy and Norfolk), he spends a great deal of his time at his residence near London. He evolved his individual style under the compelling stimulus of an original mind. His early art training, certainly, would seem to have been calculated to turn his talent into somewhat different channels. For several years he studied at the Slade School. Then came a twelvemonth in Italy, followed by a couple of years in the studio of P. Laurens in Paris. Laurens was an historical painter whose creed was the depicting of historical scenes with absolute accuracy. He painted the horrors of the Inquisition with cruel fidelity, and perhaps he taught young Tuke the value of accurate observation. Anyhow, from this training emerged the characteristic work which the world of art knows so well to-day.

The young artist was only twenty-one when his first picture was exhibited in the Royal Academy, and thenceforth his pictures became a feature of many important exhibitions, notably at the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, the Paris Salon, and Munich. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1900, eleven years after his picture " All Hands to the Pumps" was hung at Burlington House, and was acquired for the nation by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest.

The picture, like all good paintings, tells its own story. The seamen are pumping out their waterlogged vessel, from which a sail has been carried away by the gale of wind. The reversed ensign is a signal that the craft is in danger, and the sailor in the shrouds points to help at hand,

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Sir J.E. Millais Speak! Speak!	Sir J.E. Mallais My First Sermon	George Morland The Reckoning	George Morland The Inside of a Stable
Murillo The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin	Alfred Parsons When Nature Painted All Things Gay	Ralph Peacock The Sisters	Rembrandt Syndics of the Cloth Merchants' Guild
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John Singer Sargent Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth	Lady Stanley (Dorothy Tennant) His First Offence	Jan Steen Grace Before Meat	Marcus Stone On the Road from Waterloo to Paris
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