Tudor St George Tucker

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.

His grandfather, Henry St George Tucker, had served as Chairman of the East India Company.

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.

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, Mary Meyer 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.