Augustus John

by Michael Holroyd

  Maupassant, Guy de 145

  Mauron, Marie 309, 522, 574

  May, Betty 418

  Memling, Hans 105

  Mendel, Sir Charles 539

  Meninsky, Bernard 435

  Menton, France 197–8

  Meo, Innes: AJ to 435

  Meudon, Paris: Shaw visits Rodin 49; Gwen John in 403–4, 437, 438; Mary Taubman meets Edwin John in xx-xxi; Musée Rodin xxvii

  Meyer, Kuno 100; AJ’s portrait 115, 361

  Meynell, Francis 299

  Michel, Louise 38

  Milan, Italy: a gypsy assembly 312–13

  Millais, Sir John 92

  Millet, J. F. 54, 91, 92, 275

  Mistral, Frédéric 309, 319

  Mix, Tom: AJ’s portrait 493

  Modigliani, Amedeo: AJ sees in Paris 345, 396; his stone heads affect AJ deeply 396, 500; death 440

  Moeran, E. J. 457

  Monckton, Sir Walter: Lord Beaverbrook to 434

  Monet, Claude 92, 344

  Monroe, Harriet: Ezra Pound to 402

  Monsell, Elie 83

  Montgomery, General Bernard: sits to AJ 559–60, 571

  Montgomery, Vera see Stubbs, Vera

  Moore, George: and NEAC exhibitions 93; skirmish with AJ 120; on Symons 295; on AJ as ‘wonder of Chelsea’ 332; mentioned 510

  Moore, Gerald 464

  Moore, Henry 171, 500, 560

  Moorehead, Alan: attempts to write AJ’s biography xiii, 583–4

  Moréas, Jean 207, 440

  Morgan, Charles 45; AJ’s portrait 593

  Morgan, Evan see Tredegar, Lord

  Morley, Arthur 17, 21–2, 29

  Morning Post 328, 336, 476

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline: first impresssions of AJ 260–1; their subsequent relationship 262–7; meets Dorelia 267–8; Lamb as a replacement for AJ 268–9; AJ’s children farmed out to 271, 278; buys and re-titles AJ’s ‘Girl on the Cliff’ 277; visits AJ and family in field at Grantchester 286–7; meets AJ and Dorelia at Aix 320–1; AJ paints while she is ‘safely out of sight’ 406; her portrait produces furore 261; recommends doctor to AJ 506; AJ finds her ‘more paintable than ever’ 507

  Augustus John to 170, 171, 248, 259, 260, 270–1, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279–80, 284–5, 288–9, 294–5, 305, 308, 310, 311, 312, 315, 316–17, 326, 356, 357, 361, 383, 389, 390, 396, 402, 405, 406, 432, 442, 447, 462, 484, 505, 506, 507

  Henry Lamb to 325, 358

  Dorelia McNeill to 314, 319, 507

  Katherine Mansfield to 431

  Morrell, Philip 262, 266–7, 269, 507

  Morris, Edward: Lord Leverhulme 468

  Morris, Jan 407

  Mosley, Diana 504, 582

  Mousehole, Cornwall 561

  Muggeridge, Malcolm: interview with AJ 592

  Muirhead, David 200

  Munnings, Alfred 400, 433, 477

  Munthe, Axel 455

  Murray, Gilbert 285; AJ’s portrait 593

  Murray, Lt-Gen. Sir James 408

  Muspratt, Edmund: AJ’s portrait 641 (n. 49)

  Myers, John 283

  Nant-ddu, North Wales: Innes and AJ’s cottage 354–5, 359, 361, 390, 395, 397, 400

  ‘Nant-ddu’ (Augustus John) 352

  Nares, Owen 545

  Nash, John 435, 517

  Nash, Paul 332, 407, 418, 435, 592

  Nation 331

  National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment 560

  National Council for Civil Liberties 576

  National Gallery, London: AJ spends time in 36; offers £650 for Dowdall portrait 293; as canteen and concert hall in war 563; ‘British Painting since Whistler’ exhibition 563–4; mentioned 466

  National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 293

  National Library of Wales xxvi, xxvii, xxix

  National Museum of Wales xxiv–xxv, xxx, 527

  National Portrait Society 397

  Netherlands, the 40, 55, 67–8, 511

  Nettleship, Ada (née Hinton) (Ida’s mother): appearance 65; dressmaking trade 61, 65–6; objects to AJ 65, 66, 89; with Ida in Liverpool 105; and David’s birth 112; Ida abandons for Dorelia’s baby 183; objects to Paris scheme 189–9, 190; recuperates at Menton 197; with Ida in Paris 230, 231–2, 233; takes eldest children back to Wigmore Street 237–8; arrives at Equihen 247; ‘war to the knife’ with Dorelia 251, 252; removes children and Ida’s ashes to Wigmore Street 252–3; heated exchanges with AJ 272–4; children’s relationship with 356, 387; death 548; mentioned 136, 141, 186, 487

  Augustus John to 236–7, 271, 275, 287, 386, 396, 453

  Ida John to 63, 64, 71, 72, 73, 98, 105, 109–10, 229

  Nettleship, Edith 540, 553

  Nettleship, Edward (‘Uncle Ned of Nutcombe Hill’) 253, 254–5

  Nettleship, Ethel (Ida’s sister): laughs at Ida’s ‘spooning’ 62–3; on AJ 66; bravely stays at St James’s Road 105; on Ida 117; at Fitzroy Street 136; appeals to Ida 189; renounces marriage 190fn; stays with Ida 226; at Ida’s deathbed 233; on her mother 274; takes children to the seaside 387; mentioned 118, 141, 537, 546

  Ida John to 63

  Nettleship, Ida see John, Ida

  Nettleship, Jack (John Trivett) (Ida’s father): member of ‘the Brotherhood’ 61; painter of melodramatic zoo animals 61; religious views 63; dismayed at the sight of AJ 66; his cocoa drinking 66; philosophical about AJ’s marriage to his daughter 89; NEAC rejects his work 94; final illness and death 117–18

  Ida John to 112

  Nettleship, Ursula (Ida’s sister): disappointed in Ida’s wedding 105; at Fitzroy St 136; campaigns against Ida’s immorality 189, 190; renounces marriage 190; with Mrs Nettleship and Ida in Menton 197; looks after the boys 252; takes children to seaside 387; on AJ at her mother’s deathbed 548; mentioned 118 141

  Augustus John to 253–4

  Caspar John to 318

  Ida John to 112, 189, 190–1, 216

  Ada Nettleship to 230, 231–2, 237–8, 251, 252

  Edward Nettleship to 254–5

  Ethel Nettleship to 233

  Nevinson, C. R. W 333, 336, 343, 357, 407, 435

  New Age 94, 319, 404, 454, 566

  New Chenil Gallery 477–80, 552

  New English Art Club (NEAC), London: foundation of 91; original members 91–2; control passes to ‘the London Impressionists’ 92–3; AJ exhibits at 51, 81, 93–4, 95, 107, 124–5, 240; Gwen John thankful to be free of 94–5; AJ persuades her to exhibit (1908) 258; as British fortress against French Post- Impressionism 347; AJ loyal then defects 348; AJ exhibits again (1911): fades 476; mentioned 39, 304, 397

  Exhibitions (see also Appendix Two, pp. 606–6): 1902 124–5; 1903 137–8; 1904 94, 173; 1907 157; 1908 258; 1909 138, 277, 282, 300; 1910 334; 1911 191, 349, 396; 1912 335, 396; 1913 396; 1915 412; 1916 407; 1925 95

  New Gallery: ‘Exhibition of Fair Women’ 258

  ‘Newlyn Group’ 91–2

  News of the World 439

  New Statesman 514

  New York, USA: AJ’s six visits to 488, 489–90, 492–3; is bewitched by Harlem 490–1, 492

  New York Times 489

  Nice, France: AJ’s visit to Frank Harris 321, 322–5

  Nichols, David 38

  Nicholson, Ben 560

  Nicholson, William: visitor to the Rothensteins’ 121; exhibits at Chenil Gallery 200; presents AJ with huge canvas 258; AJ and Max Beerbohm dine with 332; AJ’s portrait 208, 278–9, 331, 332, 333, 464, 488; mentioned 407

  Nicolson, Harold 569

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 207, 213

  Norman, Montagu: AJ’s portrait 465–6

  Normandy: Bayeux 216, 274, 496; Cherbourg 274, 281, 496; Deauville 442; Port-en-Bessin 215, 217; Ste-Honorine 215–20; Vattetot-sur-Mer 75–7

  Norton, Lucy 449, 592

  Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, France: monastery 86–7

  Novello, Ivor 545

  Nuts (newspaper) 37

  Obachs, New Bond Street 173

  Observer 335, 430, 435, 443, 569

  O’Casey, Breon
579–80 (689 n. 98)

  O’Casey, Eileen (née Reynolds) 518, 519

  O’Casey, Sean xxv, 476, 518; AJ to 476, 565

  The Silver Tassie 454, 518–19

  O’Connor, John 489

  O’Dea, Bishop 405, 406

  Olivier, Noël 286

  Olympic, SS 488

  Omega Workshops 335, 346, 426

  Orage, A. R.: New Age 404, 427, 453~4, 566

  Orchardson, Sir William 91

  O’Rourke, Mollie: AJ to 537

  Orpen, Grace (née Knewstub) 75, 77

  Orpen, William: appearance 51, 52; modesty 51; relationship with AJ 51–2; at Mrs Everett’s ‘bun-worries’ 53; shares Charlotte St studio 68; as one of Café Royal ‘three musketeers’ 70; in campaign against St Paul’s Cathedral mosaics 74; exhibits at Carfax Gallery 75; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 75, 76, 77; portrait of AJ 44, 75, 279; Ida poses for 77–8; blames AJ for illness 78; tells Everett of AJ’s scandalous escapades 79; suffers from lack of sleep 80–1; with AJ in Albany Street 85; on AJ 88, 89, 90; exhibits at NEAC 94; on Wyndham Lewis spreading gossip 114; and Chelsea Art School 138, 139, 144, 199; finances Chenil Gallery 200; grows attached to gorilla 201; joins Royal Academy 347; shoots hole through one of his pictures 394; as war artist 431, 433; invited to paint Paris Peace Conference (1919) 439; mentioned 581

  ‘The Café Royal’ 120

  ‘The Play Scene in Hamlet’ 51, 75, 77

  Augustus John to 82, 83, 236

  Orvieto, Italy 312

  Orwell, George 576

  Osborn, W. E. 345

  O’Sullivan, Miss (art teacher) 29

  Padua, Italy 312

  Paget-Fredericks, Baron 456

  Pall Mall Gazette 331

  Paradou, Provence 308

  Paris: Ida, Gwen Salmond and Gwen John study in 70–4; AJ joins them 72–3, 78–9, 150–1; Ida’s ménage-a-trois 186, 193–9; AJ’s meetings with Wyndham-Lewis 202; atmosphere favourable to an artist 206–7; literary world 207–8; Caveau des Innocents 208; Gwen John depressed by ‘horrible rooms’ 222–3; AJ’s studio 223; Dorelia’s logement on rue du Château 223–4, 225; Christmas 1906 224–5; crowded with bourgeoisie 229; AJ cannot find primitive inspiration 241; AJ remains with Dorelia (1908) 270–1; world’s greatest stock-exchange for art 345–6; ‘preferable to Chelsea’ (1910) 357; special entertainment at the Hotel Bristol (1917) 433; under bombardment (1918) 437

  Paris Peace Conference: AJ invited as artist to 439–41, 454

  Park Studio, Kensington 521

  Partridge, Ralph 535

  Pasmore, Victor 517, 537

  Patmore, Coventry 322

  Paulton Square (No. 55), London 222

  Pearson, Hesketh: Beerbohm Tree to 119

  Extraordinary People 323

  Pearson, John: The Life of Ian Fleming 458

  Penrose, Beacus 526

  Peppard, nr Henley-on-Thames 269, 271, 359

  Perugia, Italy 312

  Perugino 312

  Pevril Tower, Swanage 74, 82–4, 90

  Phelps, Elspeth 89

  Phillips, Doris: AJ to 596

  Phillips, Sir Lawrence 514

  Phillips, Mrs Lionel 304

  Picasso, Pablo: meeting with AJ 257, 336; AJ’s; opinion of work 257, 342, 344; mentioned 328, 335, 588

  Pier Hotel, Battersea Bridge 562

  Piero della Francesca 312, 512

  Piggott, Stuart: AJ to 540

  Piper, David 285, 339

  Pisanello, Antonio 512

  Pissarro, Camille 344

  Pissarro, Lucien 173–4, 300, 348

  Pitman, Hugo 420, 470–1, 500, 586; AJ to 587

  Pitman, Reine 495

  Pittsburgh, USA: Carnegie International Exhibition (1910) 333, 488

  Playter, Phyllis: John Cowper Powys to 593

  Pléneuf, France 437–8

  Plunket-Greene, Olivia 546–7

  Pol, Poppet (née John): birth 389; nicknamed ‘Poppet’ 390; childhood 369, 405, 413, 450; lack of education 412, 536; relationship with Dorelia 388; relationship with AJ 447, 474, 482, 535, 536–7; AJ’s portrait of her 445; ‘a great flirt’ 541; life at Villa Ste-Anne 482; with AJ in Italy 486–7; and move to Fryern 498, 500; warns AJ of ‘man called Hitler’ 522; marriages 537; war work 563; loses temper with AJ 582; talks with author xx; mentioned 458, 522, 581, 601

  Augustus John to 489–90, 511, 599

  Pol, Willelm 683 (n. 119)

  Pooley, Hugh 385, 386, 387

  Pooley, Michaela 385–6

  Portal, Lord 558–9

  Port-en-Bessin, Normandy 215, 217

  Porteus, Hugh Gordon 575

  Post-Impressionism: campaign against 39–40; AJ diverges from 240–1; AJ’s reactions to 341–2, 344, 345; see also ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ and ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’

  Postbridge, Dartmoor 182, 183–5

  Pound, Ezra 402, 416

  Pound, Reginald: AJ to 26

  Powell, Anthony xix, 502, 566, 579, 600

  Powys brothers 538

  Powys, John Cowper xxv–xxvi; sits to AJ 593–4

  Poynter, Sir Edward 33–4, 75

  Pre-Raphaelitism 54, 55, 91, 138, 330

  Prescelly Mountains, Wales 5, 27

  Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton: AJ’s ‘rest cure’ 506, 507–8, 511

  Priestley, J. B. 514, 593

  Prothero, Lady M. F. 237

  Provence xix, 312, 337, 347, 524; Aix 320–1, 589; Arles 308, 309, 315; Avignon 307; Les Baux 308–9; Martigues 316–20, 325–6, 335, 337, 397, 481–3, 497; St-Rémy 521–2, 574

  Prust, Robert 17, 59

  Prydderch, Mr (‘buttocks strangely protuberant’) 18

  Pryde, James 121, 200, 260, 479

  Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre 79, 207, 229, 236, 257, 319, 329, 337, 342, 353

  Quaritch (Bernard) Ltd xxvi

  Queen (magazine) 335, 478

  Queen’s Restaurant, Sloane Square 504, 518, 581, 591–2

  Quennell, Peter 591

  Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur 507

  Quinn, John: ‘twentieth century’s most important patron of living literature and art’ 299; character traits 300, 301–2; relationship with AJ 300–1, 303–4; and Agnes Tobin 302; brings AJ, Symons and Miss Tobin together 299; AJ’s portrait and his response xviii, 299–300; warns AJ against venereal disease 302–3, 311; medical lunacy 303; sends Christmas cake and money 307, 310, 326; alarmed at AJ and Bazin 317–18; on doubling ‘efficiency’ 318; sends AJ American notices 333; sends Huneker’s book 338; buys Gauguin ceiling 342; relies on AJ for information about contemporary British art (see also Augustus John to (below)) 342; badgers and bullies Gwen John 343; AJ buys him Camden Town Group pictures 348, 349; and AJ’s involvement with Mrs Strindberg 375, 377–8; with AJ in France 378–80; on AJ’s ‘pot-boilers’ 410; believes AJ to have masterminded Epstein hoax 424; fails to help Gwen John financially 438; last encounter with AJ 491–2; death 492; mentioned xviii, xxvii, 334, 551

  Jacob Epstein to 423

  Lady Gregory to 244

  Augustus John to 290, 294, 298, 299, 301, 304, 306, 313, 314-I5, 325, 326, 333–4, 336, 337, 338, 341–2, 343, 353–61 passim, 383, 389, 392–408 passim, 413–14, 418, 424, 438–9, 450, 505

  Gwen John to xxvii, 436

  Arthur Symons to 295–6, 303, 430

  Rhoda Symons to 292

  W. B. Yeats to 1, 242, 243–4, 245–6, 334

  Rainbird, George 585

  Raleigh, Professor Walter 99, 100

  ‘Rani, the’ see Dowdall, Mary

  Ransome, Arthur: Bohemia in London 282

  Raphael 73, 145, 312, 435

  Ravenna, Italy, AJ in 312

  Read, Sir Herbert xxxii, 426, 564, 565, 576

  Rebel Art Centre, London 427

  Redon, Odilon 488

  Reed, Trelawney Dayrell: drops in at Alderney 382; literary quarrels with AJ 385; goes to Tenerife with Innes 400; survives war 450; on AJ 533; AJ’s portrait 208, 450

  Reid, B. L. xv
iii

  The Man from New York… 300

  Reilly, Sir Charles 183, 361, 637 (n. 71); AJ’s portrait 641 (n. 49)

  Augustus John to 548

  Reinhardt, Max 520

  Reitlinger, Gerald 521

  Réjane (actress) 408

  Rembrandt van Rijn: influence on AJ 55, 67–8, 69, 73, 79, 108, 124, 145, 158

  Renoir, Pierre Auguste 344

  Renvyle House, Connemara 509, 510

  Reveille 436

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua 54

  Richards, Ceri 171

  Richards, Grant 653 (n. 58)

  Richmond, Sir William: on John Singer Sargent 93; desecration of St Paul’s Cathedral 74–5, 603; finds Post-Impressionist shows ‘unmanly’ 328, and Fry ‘loathesome’ 329

  Ricketts, Charles 107, 145, 328, 334, 342

  Riddell, Sir George 439

  Robert-Fleury, Tony 35

  Roberts, Arthur 37

  Roberts, William 342, 407, 427, 435

  Roberts-Jones, Ivor: statue of Augustus John xv

  Robeson, Paul 546

  Robinson, Edward Arlington 58

  Rodin, Auguste: as friend of Legros 34; bust of Shaw 49, 412; exhibition at Carfax 75; affair with Gwen John 159–62, 196, 217; asks Gwen to model nude again 223; drawings admired by AJ 236; Gwen John will not leave him 401; death 436–7; as link between Gwen John and the Symonses 550; mentioned xviii

  ‘Le Baiser’ 293

  Gwen John to xxvii, 235

  Rogers, Claude 517

  Rosenberg, Harold 336–7

  Ross, Robert 328; AJ to 204

  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 61, 138

  Rossetti, William Michael 66

  Rossetti Studios, Flood Street 139, 200

  Rossi, Carmen 71, 73

  Rothenstein, Albert see Rutherston, Albert

  Rothenstein, Alice (née Knewstub; stage name ‘Kingsley’): with the Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 75, 76, 77; reaction to AJ and Gwen’s occupation of their house 81; at Le Puy with AJ and Rothenstein 86, 87; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida 89; Hudson in love with 121; friendship with Ida 132, 140–1, 168–70, see also Ida John to (below); sits to AJ 170; disliked by Gwen John 172; horror at Paris scheme 188; mistakes Pyramus for Ida’s baby 197

  Augustus John to 85–6, 87, 96, 97, 114, 236, 237, 246

  Gwen John to 149, 150

  Ida John to 105, 113, 114, 115, 117, 126, 127, 131–2, 141–2, 144, 146, 166, 175, 181, 185, 187–8, 193, 194–5, 216, 221, 228, 230

  Lady Prothero to 237

  William Rothenstein to 171–2, 195

  Rothenstein, Sir John: on AJ’s reaction to Gwen John’s work 49; on AJ 581–2; on his work 125, 353; buys ‘Old Lady’ for Tate 637 (n. 74); on Orpen 52; on William Rothenstein 171; mentioned xxi