"Henry Scott Tuke was born into one of the great Quaker dynasties of Britain. The names of Cadbury, Rowntree and Fry clans- with their appealing mix of chocolate and social idealism- are today better remembered than that of the Tukes. But the artist's forebears gained renown through having brought, over several generations, a comparable Quaker idealism to a very different endeavour: the better care and treatment of the mentally ill. Tuke's ancestors established The Retreat at York in the 1790s. Initially only for afflicted members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), it came to be seen as the archetype for a newly humane kind of 'moral therapy' through which the patient would be gently exhorted to recover their equilibrium without any sort of coercion or physical restraint. The artist's father, Dr. Daniel Hack Tuke, succeeded in this family tradition, becoming the single most prominent British psychiatrist of the second half of the nineteenth century. (That term was not yet in regular use in English and he and his colleagues were rather known as medical psychologists or alienists.)"
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Nicholas Tromans (contributing author), Henry Scott Tuke (New Haven: Yale University Press) by Cicely Robinson (editor), p. 95
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Henry Scott Tuke
Henry Scott Tuke (12 June 1858 – 13 March 1929), was an English visual artist; primarily a painter, but also a photographer. His most notable work was in the Impressionist style, and he is best known for his paintings of nude boys and young men.
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