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Edwin Wallace Tucker, 1798–1860

Tucker was one of a family of Exeter painters, carvers and gilders. The father was John Tucker, a market gardener, who had five sons and died before 1849: Edwin was the youngest and noted in 1830s directories as a heraldry, marine and landscape painter. His brothers John Wallace Tucker (1782–1849) and Charles W[allace?] Tucker were, respectively, a landscape and a portrait painter. John Wallace also had a son called John Wallace (1808–69) also a landscape painter and one of three more Tucker artists in that generation, with others in it who were carvers, gilders and probably frame makers, and picture dealers, in Exeter, London and Kent.

Edwin was born on 21 October 1798 in St Sidwells, Exeter, and baptised there on 13 December. In 1835 he was listed as a ‘Herald Painter’ at 235 High Street, Exeter, and in 1839 with his brother Charles, the portrait painter, in Sidwell Street: the 1841 and 1851 censuses list him more specifically in Townsend’s Court, Sidwell Street, as a heraldry painter. In March 1849 he married Harriet Shallis at St Mary Steps, Exeter, when he was just described as a ‘Painter’. He died at his home in Sidwell Street on 4 May 1860 and was buried at the church of St James on the 13th, when his age was noted as 55 though in fact 61.

The only landscape oil painting by Tucker in a UK public collection is of Dartmouth Harbour from Castle Walk, Devon, purchased for Dartmouth Museum by its Friends group in 1963. It is signed and dated ‘Edwin Tucker / 1835’, lower left. (Art UK also lists 22 landscape and coastal paintings by his nephew John W. Tucker junior but and none by either John W. senior or Charles.)

Tucker’s second name sometimes appears as ‘Wallis’ and although he stated himself a bachelor at marriage, in 1849 an Edwin Wallace Tucker also married to Maria Bloodworth at Holy Trinity, Marylebone, London, in August 1838. This may be coincidence, subject to further enquiry, as Tucker otherwise seems to have lived solely in Exeter.

Summarised from information (largely provided by Osmund Bullock) in Art UK discussion of Tucker’s ‘Dartmouth Harbour’.

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