Printmaker, notably a wood engraver, painter, illustrator and teacher, born in Hull, Yorkshire. After education in Lancashire he studied at Blackpool School of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Courtauld Institute, Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art and Central School, notably with Gertrude Hermes. Tute taught at West of England College of Art and Bristol Polytechnic. Elected RE, first chairman of the revived SWE, was a full member of RWA and showed at RA as well as having a series of solo exhibitions. Tute had a major retrospective at Bristol Museums & Art Gallery, 1986, and was included in the Six Academicians Show at RWA in 1997, showing regularly in the Academy’s annual exhibitions. In 2005, he described his painting as “conservative and reactionary, with a large dose of introspection”, and cited Max Beckmann as his favourite artist.