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| Keywords: Henry Scott Tuke - Bailing a Spiller.jpg Artwork Creator Henry Scott Tuke 1922 watercolour cm 20 27 5 object history Provenance Sold for £31 10 to S McConnell The Gatehouse Manor Road Harrogate Yorks ; Private Collection U K credit line signed and dated 'H S TUKE 1922' upper right inscribed 'R W S/No4 Bailing a Spiller' H S Tuke R A /Swanpool/Falmouth' on a label attached verso This is a fine example of Henry Scott Tuke's mature watercolour painting Set on a beach near Swanpool Falmouth where the artist lived it features two local youths paid as models baiting a fishing line This subject of either fishermen bringing in their catch or preparing to go out was a favourite one for Tuke His earliest depictions of this subject were painted at the beginning of the First World War Fishing was an activity Tuke participated in many times especially during the early years of the war when he went out fishing to feed himself and his neighbours to supplement their rations Listed in Tuke's register of paintings R983 this watercolour is very similar to The Morning Catch R984 also shown at the Royal Watercolour Society in the Winter of 1922 no 5 accession number http //www bonhams com/auctions/17409/lot/83/ Bonhams PD-old-70-1923 Sailors by Henry Scott Tuke Paintings of boats Paintings of men 1922 paintings Images from Bonhams Swanpool Beach Falmouth 1920s way of life in painting Coasts of Cornwall in art Two men in art | ||||
