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Augustus John 564
Augustus John to 27
Rothenstein, William: on Legros’s methods 34; Steer on his painting 39; and Orpen 51; on young AJ 27, 52, 54, 58; introduces AJ to Goya’s work 54–5; chooses artists for Carfax Gallery 75; with AJ at Vattetot-sur-Mer 75, 76, 77, and in Paris 78; offers house to AJ and Gwen 80–1; portrait of AJ 81; with AJ at Le Puy 86–7; helps AJ sell his work 88, 107; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida 89–90; entertains artists and writers at Church Row 121, 123; sends AJ on marathon walks 123–4; on Dorelia 129; and Ida John 132; on AJ’s restlessness 133; AJ’s portrait 137; lectures at Chelsea Art School 139; symptoms of burlesque in his friendship with the Johns 170–1; becomes disillusioned with AJ 171–2; welcomes Dorelia as inspiration 172–3; throws Society of Twelve into confusion 173–4; opposes AJ’s Paris scheme 188; shocked by AJ’s behaviour with his children 195; puts Dodgson in touch with AJ 200; writes AJ ‘Uriah Heep-like’ letters on Ida’s death 234; AJ recommends as Principal of Chelsea Art School 239; AJ’s financial interest in 240; on Arthur Symons 295; clash with Fry 329, 349–50, 351; on AJ in interwar years 462, 505; on Henry John 541; on AJ’s prose style 568; ‘pegs out’ 590; AJ pays tribute in the Tate Gallery Memorial Exhibition Catalogue 117, 174; mentioned xxv, xxxii, 68, 94, 119, 120, 201, 305, 321, 339
‘The Doll’s House’ 75
Men and Memories 68, 173
Charles Conder to 82
Jacob Epstein to 171
Eric Gill to 329, 341
Augustus John to 22, 54, 55, 56, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 97, 98, 100, 105, 106–7, 109, 110, 110, 114, 116, 118, 123, 133–4, 135, 138, 145, 164–5, 204, 208, 236, 238, 240, 241–2, 275, 277, 281, 300, 356, 428, 453, 479, 501, 563
Ida John to 118, 167, 170, 228
T. E. Lawrence to 402
Neville Lytton to 332
Ramsay MacDonald to 409
William Orpen to 90, 433
John Quinn to 303
Henry Tonks to 133
Rouault, Georges 344–5, 571
Rousseau, Henri (‘Le Douanier’) 345
Rowan, Eric 355
Rowse, A. L. 593
Royal Academy of Art, London: all-powerful 33; Poynter president of 34; Legros hostile to 34; and Slade 34, 39; NEAC in opposition to 39, 91–2, 93; ‘vast collection of wrong-minded stuff’ 95; academizing process 336–7; Orpen joins 347; Wadsworth and AJ drill in courtyard 402; AJ’s election (1921) 475–6; AJ’s work exhibited (1922–62) 613–14; Bankhead and Du Maurier portraits exhibited (1930) 470; AJ’s resignation (1938) 476–7, and re-election (1940) 477; Diploma Gallery exhibition (1954) 469fn, 585–8; AJ fails to finish triptych for (1960) 597; the Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition 592; mentioned 30, 599
Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 478
Rubens, Peter Paul 54, 55
‘The Three Graces’ 484
Ruskin, John 33
Russell, Bertrand 262, 576, 578, 579
Russell, Irene 612
Russell, John 586, 589
Russell, Leonard 570
Russell, Vera 589
Russell, Walter 39
Rutherston (Rothenstein), Albert: rather a rake 52; shares Charlotte St studio with AJ 68; one of ‘three musketeers’ at Café Royal 70; with AJ and Orpen in St Paul’s campaign 74; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 74–7; at AJ’s wedding party 89–90; delivers a kitchen table 96; on Liverpool life 112; on AJ’s ménage 133; on Gwen John 135; Gwen John’s contempt for 172; on AJ’s portrait of Fisher 407; mentioned 119, 201, 581
John Folhergill to 353
Augustus John to 112, 389
Paul Nash to 418
William Orpen to 114
William Rothenstein to 133, 172
Henry Tonks to 39–40
Rutherston, Charles: AJ to 162, 201
Rutter, Frank 240, 330–1, 347, 348
Ryan, Thomas Fortune 378
Sadler’s Wells, London 51, 70
Saint-Bernard Restaurant 419
St Catherine’s School, Tenby 20–2, 29
Saint Gaudens, Homer 492
St George, Mrs Florence Evelyn (Orpen’s mistress) 51
Ste Honorine-sur-Mer, Normandy (1906) 215–20
St Paul’s Cathedral: Sir William Richmond’s desecration of 74–5, 603
St Rémy-de-Provence: Mas de Galeron 521–2, 574; author visits xix
Salaman, Bessie 62, 118; Ida Nettleship to 62, 63, 64
Salaman, Clement 62, 65
Salaman, Dorothy 61, 89; Ida Nettleship to 64, 65
Salaman, Michel: on AJ at Slade 32; shares AJ’s exile in Tenby 40–1; loans money to AJ 79; with AJ in France 85, 86–7; AJ paints portrait 86; shocked at AJ’s womanizing 87; lectures at Chelsea Art School 139; marries 144, 182; sells caravan to AJ 182, 279; writes to Gwen John 552; mentioned 54, 62, 79, 84, 89, 177, 201, 271, 358
Augustus John to 49, 56, 68, 75–6, 83, 85, 87, 88, 93–4, 97, 98, 115, 116, 118, 119, 125, 140, 166, 182, 184, 196, 199, 259, 396, 547
Gwen John to 74, 115, 116, 162
Ida John to 73–4, 82, 115, 134
Ambrose McEvoy to 88
William Orpen to 77, 80
Albert Rutherston to 133, 135
Gwen Salmond to 72
Salmon, André 207
Salmond, Gwen (later Lady Smith): at Slade 50, 61; goes to Paris with Ida 70, 71; smuggles Gwen John into Académie Carmen 71–2; painting in Cold Veal Street 73–4; ‘lady superintendent’ at Chelsea Art School 139; arranges life-drawing classes for Edna Clarke Hall 140; liberates Matthew Smith 154; marriage fails 552; mentioned 89, 118, 163
Sampson, Amyas 101, 289, 451
Sampson, Anthony 451
Sampson, Honor 101, 289, 290, 451
Sampson, John: influence on AJ and their friendship 100–4, 201–2, 280; passion for lost languages 100, 101; secret love life 100–1, 103; admitted by gypsies as one of their own 101, 104; with AJ and Ida in Liverpool 106; in Wales with AJ 126; Dorelia writes to in Romany 131; AJ’s portrait 137; Ida finds him ‘2nd rate’ 225; importance to the Gypsy Lore Society 283, 284; rediscovers Matthew Wood 289; bloody combat in Wales 290–1; patriotic pride and parental anguish 451; publication of his dictionary 451–3; death and scattering of his ashes 548–9; ‘great work’ kept alive 561; mentioned xxvi, xxxii, 284, 36l, 395, 560
‘The Apotheosis of Augustus John’ 104
The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales 103, 124, 451–2, 453
Omar Khayyam (Romany version) 103
Poacher’s Calendar 102
Romane Gilia 103
The Wind on the Heath 103
Augustus John to 26, 102, 134, 143, 146, 175, 182, 184, 191, 193, 231, 341, 347, 354, 389, 390, 414, 431, 439, 451
Walter Raleigh to 100
Sampson, Margaret (née Sprunt) 101, 106, 141, 289, 451
Augustus John to 166, 231, 233, 235, 238, 548–9
Gwen John to 95
Ida John to 123, 138, 142, 174, 191, 193, 194, 196, 215–16, 226
Sampson, Michael 101, 289, 451, 549; John Sampson to 104, 452
Sandon Studios Society 106, 361
Sargent, John Singer: England’s pre-eminent portrait painter 51; impressed by AJ’s drawings 54; Sir William Richmond on 93; exhibits at the NEAC 94; AJ scorns 95; drawing used instead of AJ’s portrait on Yeats’s Collected Poems 245; not impressed by AJ’s ‘The Pageant of War’ 672 (n. 124); mentioned 68, 292, 428, 468, 521
Saunders, Edie 589
Saunders, Fred 589
Schepeler, Alexandra (‘Alick’): ‘strange charm’ 209–10; relationship with AJ 209, 210–13, 218–21, 222; AJ’s portraits and drawings 213–14, 225, 258; Dorelia banishes 224, 258, 259; death 590; mentioned 359 Augustus John to 83, 199, 202–3, 207, 210–11, 212, 214, 215, 218–19, 220–1, 222, 223, 228, 229, 236, 244, 246, 248, 296, 304, 416, 433
Schepeler, John Daniel 209
Schepeler, Sarah (née Briggs) 209
Schwabe, ‘Birdie’ 422
Schweitzer, Albert: sits to AJ 593
Scott, Dr Clifford 534
Scott, Hope 510, 511
Scott, Stevenson 493
Scrutton, Hugh 293
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1912) xiv, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 348, 349, 350–1
Segonzac, André 345
Selborne Church, Hampshire 590
Seymour, Miranda: Ottoline Morrell… 268
Shakespeare, Olivia: W. B. Yeats to 245fn
Shakespeare, William 525
Hamlet 37
King John 73
King Lear 73
Sonnet CXLVI xi
The Winter’s Tale 62
Shankland, Virginia 43
Shannon, Charles 99, 107, 148, 242, 244, 299, 334, 342
Shaw, Charlotte (née Payne-Townshend) 410; described by AJ 411
Shaw, G. Bernard: ‘bearded demon’ xiv, 445; ‘subject of a bust by Rodin’ 49; sits to AJ 410–11; described by 411; AJ’s portraits 208, 411–12, 429, 464; praises The Silver Tassie 519; ‘gorgeous thing’ 528; brought in to amuse Montgomery 559–60; ‘too old for sittings’ 593
Shelley, Lillian (model) 378, 418
Shephard, Nicolette see Devas, Nicolette
Shephard, Rupert 528
Sherrington, Sir John: AJ portrait 641 (n. 49)
Shone, Richard xxxii, 464, 487, 515–16; Bloomshury Portraits 334
Shute, Betty 15fn, 404
Shute, Dale 15fn
Shute, Muriel see Matthews, Muriel
Shute, Victor Lauder 15fn
Shute, Winifred (née John): birth 4, 5; childhood 5, 12–13, 14; education 13, 18–19; character 14–15, 24–5; relationship with father 23, 24, 25; pairs off with Thornton 28; giggles with Gwen 40; shares flat with AJ and Gwen 47–8; stays with AJ and Ida 115; travels in Canada and America 15fn, 25, 126; difficult relationship with Thornton 161; becomes an accomplished violinist 14, 15fn; marriage and children 15fn, 24, 404, 438; appeals to AJ not to write memoir of Gwen 573; mentioned xxx, 41, 105, 136, 163, 381
Augustus John to 89, 96, 561–2, 594
Ida John to 117, 140, 143, 146, 167
Sibthorp, Veronica, Dylan Thomas to 532fn
Sickert, Robert 75
Sickert, Walter: meets AJ 66; a member of ‘London Impressionists’ 92, 93, 94; on Legros 34; on Newlyn Group 92; respects AJ’s work 94, 173, 407, 426; clothes 121, 592; member of Artists’ Association 330, 348, and Camden Town Group 348, 349; mentioned xxxii, 202, 329, 331, 351, 419, 563
Siena, Italy 312
Signorelli, Luca 312, 337, 340, 435
Sime, Sidney 395, 397, 400
Simpson, F. M. 114
Sisley, Alfred 344
Sitwell, Georgia 512
Sitwell, Osbert 119, 425–6, 576
Sitwell, Sacheverell 512, 568
Sitwells, the xxvi, 45, 419, 454, 479
Slade, Charles 294, 359
Slade, Felix 33
Slade, Jessie (née McNeill) 225, 247, 656 (n. 109)
Slade, Ursula, Dorelia McNeill to 305
Slade School of Art, London 30, 32–6, 38–40, 56, 57, 139, 209, 210, 260, 330, 336
Sliwinski, Jan 381
Smith, Augusta (née Phillips) 9
Smith, F. E.: Lord Beaverbrook to 426
Smith, Leah (AJ’s ‘Aunt Lily’) 5, 6, 11
Smith, Mary (née Thornton) (AJ’s grandmother) 9, 10
Smith, (Sir) Matthew: liberated from nervous paralysis 154; AJ admires his work 346–7; in Paris with Innes 352; helps Vivien John 537; marriage fails 552; AJ visits in France 589; devastated by war 591; he and AJ paint each other 591; together in Chelsea 591–2; death 591, 592; RA memorial show 592; mentioned 208, 339, 345, 500, 533
Augustus John to xxv, 589, 590
Smith, Lady (Matthew) see Salmond, Gwen
Smith, Rosina (AJ’s ‘Aunt Rose’) 5–6, 11
Smith, Sarah Ann 9
Smith, Thomas (AJ’s grandfather) 9, 10, 59, 68
Smith, Thomas (his son) 9
Smith, Zadock (AJ’s great uncle) 9
Social Credit Party 576
Society of British Artists, The 478
Society of Twelve 173–4, 240, 257, 397
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin 338
Southampton Street, London (No.39) 88
Spain: AJ fails to reach 270–1; series of impressions (1922) 438–4; AJ in Madrid 484; AJ and Dorelia in (1954–5) 588–9; author visits xix
Spalding, Frances 328
Speaker 93
Spectator 93, 335, 515
Spencer, Gilbert 366, 507
Spencer, Lord: AJ’s portrait 469
Spencer, Stanley 171, 330, 366, 407, 507
‘The Apple Gatherers’ 56
‘The Nativity’ 56
Spender, Stephen 580
World Within World xiv
Squire, J. C. 396
Stamfordham, Lord 470
Stancourt, John Augustus 534
Star, The 261
Starr, Sidney 85
Steen, Marguerite 279
Steer, Philip Wilson: as artist and teacher 38–9, 90; influences AJ 39, 56; on AJ’s drawing methods 45; exhibits at NEAC 92, 94; AJ succeeds in Order of Merit 564; mentioned 89, 120, 285, 331, 343, 500
‘Yachts’ 285
Steiner, George xvi
Stendhal 145, 336
Stephen, Virginia see Woolf, Virginia
Stern, Ernst 520, 521
Stevens, Alfred 173, 258
Stevenson, Frances (‘Pussy’) 408–9, 440; AJ to 440
Stewart-Richardson, Lady Constance 372–3fn
Stonyhurst College, nr Whalley, Lancashire 540, 541, 545
Stopes, Marie 192
Strachey, James 285–6
Strachey, Julia 545–6
Strachey, Lytton: ‘bearded demon’ xiv; recoils at Liverpool’s poverty 97; on AJ and his art 249, 264; asks why people get so excited about art 328; and Henry Lamb 358; at Alderney 381; mistaken for AJ xiv; dances with AJ 398; asked to write a book about AJ xiii; deplores AJ’s appearance in khaki 430; in ‘ecstasy’ over an AJ portrait 463; author researches xiii, xxvii; mentioned 263, 320, 445, 495
Carrington to 421
Dorelia to 417, 502
Duncan Grant to 249, 250
Augustus John to xxvi, 358
Henry Lamb to 359, 360, 361
Stresemann, Gustav, sits to AJ 461, 485–6
Strindberg, Frida 374–8, 380, 417, 418, 447
Marriage with Genius (autobiograpy) 376
Strindberg, J. August 375
Strong, L. A. G. 118
Stubbs, Vera (formerly Fearing and Montgomery) 495; AJ to 513
Stulik, Rudolph 419, 420, 460
Suggia, Guilhermina 462, 463; AJ’s portrait 462–4
Summers, Gerald: ‘Lines to Augustus John’s Car’ 674 (n.9)
Sunday Herald 423
Sunday Times xxvii, 335, 570, 586
Sutherland, Graham: ‘Winston Churchill’ 468
Sutton, Eric: AJ to 442
Swanage, Dorset: Pevril Tower 74, 82–4, 90
Swinburne, Algernon 38, 298, 322
Symons, Arthur: early life and marriage 295; meets AJ 145, 295; relationship with AJ 294–7, 303; on Ida John 117; goes mad in Italy 297; provokes kindness in AJ 298–9; AJ’s portraits 299, 410, 426; Quinn diagnoses his complaint 302; ‘very gaga’ 304; member of the Gypsy Lore Society 283; lunches with AJ ‘in Khaki’ 430; Gwen John stays with 550; mentioned 300, 319, 438, 450
‘The Greatness of Augustus John’ 295
‘Prologue for a Modern Painter: to A. E. John’ 296
‘The Wanderers’ 278
Augustus John to 308, 311, 312, 432
Symons, Rhoda (née Bowser) 295, 297, 299, 550, 551
Tagore, Rabindranath: William Rothenstein to 172
Taubman, Mary: meets Edwin John xx–xxi; her researches for Gwen John xxi–xxii, xxvii, xxx; meets and helps the author xx, xxi, xxii; on Dorelia 601
Gwen John (quoted) 54, 162
Tenby, Wales 3, 11, 14, 15–17, 18, 28, 29, 56; Greenhill School 19–20, 26, 29; Lexden Terrace (No.5) 380; Rope Walk Field (No.50) 3; St Catherine’s 20–1, 29; Southbourne, South Cliff St 55; Victoria House 12–13, 22, 23, 40–1, 42; confers Freedom of Borough on AJ 594
Tenby Observer and County News 594
Tennyson, Charles: Dorelia McNeill to 372
Terry, Ellen 61
Thame, Buckinghamshire: The Spread Eagle 538, 637 (n. 82)
Thomas, Asa 293
Thomas, Caitlin (née Macnamara): at Alderney with Johns 412, 413, 537; fails to entrap Caspar John 529; relationship with AJ 528, 529–31, 532; meets and marries Dylan Thomas 531, 532; mentioned xx, xxxii
Leftover Life to Kill 570
Thomas, Dylan: meets Caitlin 531; fights AJ 531–2; melodrama at Laugharne xx, 532; marries Caitlin 532; relationship with AJ 532–3; AJ pays for dinner 420, 531; AJ’s portraits 208, 533; on AJ 523, 562; tells AJ to take up poetry 566; death 590; mentioned xiii, xxvi, xxxii, 451, 567; ‘Into her lying down head’ 530
Thomas, Edward 282
Thomson, A. R. 481, 482, 524
Thornton, William Vincent 9
Thorskinsson, Haraldar 381
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 512
Tillyard, S. K.: The Impact of Modernism 351
Time magazine 27
Times, The: notice of Ida John’s death 238; on ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ 328; on AJ’s paintings 330, 333, 334, 335, 407, 412, 425, 435, 523, 586–7; on AJ’s non-election to the RA 475
Tintoretto, Jacopo 72, 512
Tite Street (No.33), Chelsea 521, 562, 581
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) 54, 275, 512
‘Philip II’ 145
‘Venus’ 484
Tobin, Agnes 298, 299, 302, 304
Tonks, Henry: starts at Slade 35; influence on AJ 32, 33, 36, 38, 44, 79, 336; campaigns against ‘Roger Fry rabble’ 39–40; impressed by Edna Waugh’s work 50; banishes Mrs Everett to basement 52; admires AJ’s work 53, 54; discourages Ida 64; praises Rothenstein’s portrait of AJ 81; buys AJ’s drawings 88; joins NEAC 93; opinion of Wyndham Lewis’s work 121; on John establishment 133; unexpected reaction to Fry 328–9; mentioned 54, 78, 89, 107, 240, 350, 428
Tooth, Dudley 479–80, 597; AJ to 558
Tooth’s Gallery: exhibitions of AJ’s work 480, (1938) 514, 523
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 76
Townshend, Theodosia: AJ to 414
Tredegar, Lady 415, 468; AJ’s portrait 426
Tredegar, Lord (Evan Morgan) 373fn, 454, 456; AJ to 427, 432