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[Paul
Nash] [Augustus John]
[Austin Spare] [Bruce
Bairnsfarther] [Alfred Lee]
[David Bomberg] [Eric
Ravilious] [William
Rothenstein] [Leonard
Raven-Hill] [Frank Brangwyn]
[John Lavery] [Francis
Dodd] [Stanley Spencer]
[Mervyn Peake] [Muirhead
Bone] [Cyril-Bird] [William
Roberts] [William Orpen]
[Mark Gertler] [Philip
Steer] [John Hassall]
[Wyndham Lewis]
 Augustus
Edwin John OM, RA (1878–1961)
Biography
John was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire and studied at the Slade
School of Art in London. In 1898 he won the Slade Prize with
his painting, Moses and the Brazen Serpent. He later studied
independently at Paris.
His psychological astuteness sometimes upset those he painted,
including Lord Leverhulme, who was so displeased with his portrait,
that he cut out the head. He painted many distinguished people
of his time, from Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas T.E.
Lawrence and George Bernard Shaw, to classical musicians.
During World War I, he was involved with the Canadian infantrymen.
After only two months serving in France he was sent home in
disgrace after getting involved in a brawl, but was saved from
a court-martial by Lord Beaverbrook.
Augustus John had a particular interest in Roma people around
the British Isles and Europe, and even adopted a similar sort
of lifestyle himself for a time.
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Augustus John - The New Biography
by Michael Holroyd (Author)
Drawing on the mass of new material which has
come to light since the first edition was published
in 1974, this revised biography presents a detailed
account of the passionate and unruly life of
the bohemian British painter, Augustus John,
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[Paul
Nash] [Augustus John]
[Austin Spare] [Bruce
Bairnsfarther] [Alfred Lee]
[David Bomberg] [Eric
Ravilious] [William
Rothenstein] [Leonard
Raven-Hill] [Frank Brangwyn]
[John Lavery] [Francis
Dodd] [Stanley Spencer]
[Mervyn Peake] [Muirhead
Bone] [Cyril-Bird] [William
Roberts] [William Orpen]
[Mark Gertler] [Philip
Steer] [John Hassall]
[Wyndham Lewis]
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