Newlyn School
In 1883, Tuke returned to Britain and moved to Newlyn, Cornwall joining a small colony of artists. These included Walter Langley, Albert Chevallier Tayler and Thomas Cooper Gotch, a lifelong painter of the girl-child, who became a lifelong friend. These painters and others are known to art historians as the Newlyn School. He worked from Rose Cottage at Tregadgwith Farm Cornwall at the head of the Lamorna valley.
In Newlyn, Tuke completed his first painting of boys in boats. Painted in 1884 and called "Summertime", it depicts two local boys, John Wesley Kitching and John Cotton in a punt called "Little Argo". Tuke's style was more impressionistic than the other Newlyn painters and he only stayed a short time. However, he remained close friends with many of the artists for thirty years.
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