Augustus John
Augustus John | |
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John in 1902 by George Charles Beresford | |
| Born | Augustus Edwin John 4 January 1878 Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales |
| Died | 31 October 1961 (aged 83) Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England |
| Known for | painter |
| Movement | Post-Impressionism |
| Spouse | |
| Partner | Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeill |
| Children | various, including Casper, Vivien, Gwyneth, Amaryllis, and Tristan |
| Relatives | Gwen John (sister) |
| Awards | Order of Merit Royal Academician |
Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." In the second volume of BLAST, Percy Wyndham Lewis wrote, referring to John, that the ten years up to 1914 had been "the Augustan decade." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.