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Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and
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. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain:
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remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." He was the younger brother of the painter
Gwen John Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although s ...
.


Early life

Born in
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, at 11,12 or 13 The Esplanade, now known as The Belgrave Hotel, Pembrokeshire, John was the younger son and third of four children. His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor; his mother, Augusta Smith, from a long line of Sussex master plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen. At the age of seventeen he briefly attended the Tenby School of Art, then left Wales for London, studying at the
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,
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. He became the star pupil of drawing teacher
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and even before his graduation he was considered the most talented draughtsman of his generation. His sister, Gwen was with him at the Slade and became an important artist in her own right. In 1897, John hit submerged rocks diving into the sea at Tenby, suffering a serious head injury; the lengthy convalescence that followed seems to have stimulated his adventurous spirit and accelerated his artistic growth. In 1898, he won the Slade Prize with ''Moses and the Brazen Serpent.'' John afterward studied independently in Paris where he seems to have been influenced by
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. The need to support
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(1877–1907), whom he married in 1901, led him to accept a post teaching art at the University of Liverpool.


North Wales

Over a period of two years from around 1910 Augustus John and his friend
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painted in the Arenig valley, in particular one of Innes's favourite subjects, the mountain
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. In 2011 this period was made the subject of a
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documentary titled ''The Mountain That Had to Be Painted''.


Provence

In February 1910, John visited and fell in love with the town of
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, in
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, located halfway between Arles and Marseilles, and first seen from a train en route to Italy. John wrote that Provence "had been for years the goal of my dreams" and Martigues was the town for which he felt the greatest affection. "With a feeling that I was going to find what I was seeking, an anchorage at last, I returned from Marseilles, and, changing at Pas des Lanciers, took the little railway which leads to Martigues. On arriving my premonition proved correct: there was no need to seek further." The connection with Provence continued until 1928, by which time John felt the town had lost its simple charm, and he sold his home there. John was, throughout his life, particularly interested in the
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(whom he referred to as "Gypsies"), and sought them out on his frequent travels around the United Kingdom and Europe, learning to speak various versions of their language. For a time, shortly after his marriage, he and his family, which included his wife Ida, mistress Dorothy (Dorelia) McNeill, and John's children by both women, travelled in a caravan, in gypsy fashion. Later on he became the President of the
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, a position he held from 1937 until his death in 1961.


War

In December 1917 John was attached to the Canadian forces as a war artist and made a number of memorable portraits of Canadian infantrymen. The result was to have been a huge mural for Lord Beaverbrook and the sketches and cartoon for this suggest that it might have become his greatest large-scale work. However, like so many of his monumental conceptions, it was never completed. As a war artist, John was allowed to keep his beard; according to
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, John was "the only officer in the British Army, except the King, who wore a beard." After two months in France he was sent home in disgrace after taking part in a brawl. Lord Beaverbrook, whose intervention saved John from a court-martial, sent him back to France where he produced studies for a proposed Canadian War Memorial picture, although the only major work to result from the experience was ''Fraternity''. In 2011, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge finally unveiled this mural at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. This unfinished painting, ''
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'', is 12 feet high by 40 feet long.


Portraits

Although known early in the century for his drawings and
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s, the bulk of John's later work consisted of portraits. Those of his two wives and his children were regarded as among his best. He was known for the psychological insight of his portraits, many of which were considered "cruel" for the truth of the depiction.
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was so upset with his portrait that he cut out the head (since only that part of the image could easily be hidden in his vault) but when the remainder of the picture was returned by error to John there was an international outcry over the desecration. By the 1920s John was Britain's leading portrait painter. John painted many distinguished contemporaries, including
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, Thomas Hardy,
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, the cellist
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, the Marchesa Casati and
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. Perhaps his most famous portrait is of his fellow-countryman, Dylan Thomas, whom he introduced to
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, his sometime lover who later became Thomas' wife. Portraits of Dylan Thomas by John are held by the
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and the National Portrait Gallery. It was said that after the war his powers diminished as his bravura technique became sketchier. One critic has claimed that "the painterly brilliance of his early work degenerated into flashiness and bombast, and the second half of his long career added little to his achievement." However, from time to time his inspiration returned, as it did on a trip to Jamaica in 1937. The works done in Jamaica between March and May 1937 evidence a resurgence of his powers, and amounted to "the St. Martin's summer of his creative genius". In 1944, Sir Bernard Montgomery commissioned a portrait of himself, but rejected the completed work "because it was not like me"; it was subsequently purchased by the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow. Of his method for painting portraits John explained:


Family

Early in 1901, John married
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(1877–1907), daughter of the artist
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, and a fellow student at the Slade; the couple had five sons. From 1905 until her death in 1907 Ida lived in Paris with John's mistress Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeill; a
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icon, she lived with John for the rest of their lives, having four children together, though they never married. One of his sons (by his wife Ida) was the prominent British Admiral and
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Sir
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. His daughter with Dorelia,
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(1915–1994), was a notable painter. By Ian Fleming's widowed mother, Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming, Rose, he had a daughter, Amaryllis Fleming (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist. Another of his sons, by Mavis de Vere Cole, wife of the prankster Horace de Vere Cole, is the television director
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. His son Romilly (1906–1986) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist. Poppet (1912–1997), John's daughter by Dorothy, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988). Willem Pol's daughter Talitha (1940–1971) by an earlier marriage (i.e. step-granddaughter of both Augustus and Dorothy), a fashion icon of 1960s
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, married
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His daughter
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(1915–2010), by musician Nora Brownsword, was an artist. Augustus John's promiscuity gave rise to rumours that he had fathered as many as 100 children.


Later life

In later life, John wrote two volumes of autobiography, ''Chiaroscuro'' (1952) and ''Finishing Touches'' (1964). In old age, although John had ceased to be a moving force in British art, he was still greatly revered, as was demonstrated by the huge show of his work mounted by the Royal Academy in 1954. He continued to work up until his death in
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, Hampshire in 1961, his last work being a studio mural in three parts, the left hand of which showed a
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ian figure of a French peasant in a yellow waistcoat playing a
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while coming down a village street. It was Augustus John's final wave goodbye. He joined the
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as a pacifist in the 1950s, and was a founder member of the Committee of 100. On 17 September 1961, just over a month before his death, he joined the Committee of 100's's anti-nuclear weapons demonstration in
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, London. At the time, his son, Admiral Sir
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was
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and Chief of Naval Staff. He died at Fordingbridge, aged 83. He is said to have been the model for the bohemian painter depicted in
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's novel ''
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'', which was later made into a 1958 film of the same name with Alec Guinness in the lead role. Michael Holroyd published a biography of John in 1975 and it is a mark of the public's continued interest in the painter that Holroyd published a new version of the biography in 1996. A major exhibition, 'Gwen John and Augustus John,' was held at
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over the winter of 2004/5. According to the gallery's publicity, this exhibition revealed 'that although Augustus described himself and his sister as "the same thing, really," their art developed in different directions. Augustus' work seems wildly exuberant against Gwen's more introverted approach, but both artists indicate a similar flight from the modern world into a realm of fantasy. The exhibition went on to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff later in 2005. In 2018
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in Dorset hosted the exhibition 'Augustus John: Drawn from Life,' which then went on to
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in 2019.


Honours and Reputation

Early in his career John became a leading figure in the
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, where he frequently exhibited in the years up to the First World War. With his vivid manner of portraiture and his ability to catch unerringly some striking and usually unfamiliar aspect of his subject, he superseded Sargent as England's fashionable portrait painter. In 1921 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy and elected a full R.A. in 1928. He was named to the Order of Merit by
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in 1942. He was a trustee of the
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from 1933 to 1941, and President of the
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from 1948 to 1953. He was awarded the Freedom of the Town of
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on 30 October 1959. On his death in 1961 an obituary in
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observed, 'He was regarded as the grand old man of British painting, and as one of the greatest in British history.'


Collections

His work is held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the
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, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the
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, the
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, the
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, the Brooklyn Museum, the
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, the
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, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


Bibliography

* Augustus John,
Chiaroscuro - Fragments of Autobiography
', Readers Union / Jonathan Cape, London, 1954. * ''Augustus John, Finishing Touches'', edited and introduced by Daniel George, Readers Union / Jonathan Cape, London 1966. * Michael Holroyd, ''Augustus John: A Biography'', London: Heinemann, 1974-1975 (2 vols.); New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975 (1 vol.). * Michael Holroyd, ''Augustus John: The New Biography'', London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 1996; New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1996. *
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, ''Augustus John: Drawn from Life'', London, UK: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2018.


See also

*
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*'' Marchesa Casati'' – Augustus John painting of
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References


External links

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Augustus John collection at the Tate Gallery

Augustus John collection at the National Portrait Gallery London

Augustus John collection at the National Museum Wales

''The Dawn'' a symbolic war lithograph of 1917

''Augustus John - an appreciation'' by Colin Ward

John's prize-winning painting Study for Moses and the Brazen Serpent



John's sketch of the writer, James Joyce

John's connection with the anarchist movement from libcom.orgAugustus John's Collection
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Harry Ransom Center
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