At Slade School of Fine Art Bomberg was one of the remarkable generation of artists described today as the school's "crisis of brilliance" that studied under Henry Tonks and included Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Mark Gertler and Isaac Rosenberg [REF].
The emphasis in teaching at the Slade was on technique and draughtsmanship, to which Bomberg was well suited - winning the Tonks Prize for his drawing of fellow student Rosenberg in 1911 [REF].