Augustus John (148 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
Innes, James Dickson: first meeting with AJ
352
; in France with Fothergill
352
,
353
; contracts tuberculosis
352
; visits Paris with Matthew Smith
352
; falls in love with Euphemia Lamb
352
; ‘blood brotherhood’ with AJ
353
; AJ recommends landscapes to Quinn
353–4
; in Wales with AJ
354–5
; buries letters from Euphemia
354
; infuriated by arrival of Lipczinski and wife
361
; appears on Aran
393
; returns to Wales with AJ
393
; jealous of Derwent Lees
394
; ‘very much of a Welshman’
347
; dejected in Marseilles
395
; seriously ill
396
; goes to Tenerife with Trelawney Reed
400
; death
401
; mentioned
xxv
,
359
,
395
,
397
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and ’Gravers
258
,
478
Ireland, AJ in: with Lady Gregory at Coole Park
242–6
,
410–11
; with Gogarty
390–1
,
447
; with Macnamara
392–3
; in wartime
405–6
; at the Taillteann Games
485
; in the 1930s
509–11
,
512
Ireland, John
478
Ireland, Lily (model)
395
Ischia, island of
487
Italy: Ida John studies in
63–4
; Symons goes mad in
297
; AJ travels through (1910)
311–13
, (1925)
486–7
, (1933)
512–13
; strike over Lord Leverhulme portrait
468
Ivor-Jones, Sheila Nansi
534
Jackson, Derek (Poppet’s husband)
537
James, M. R.
655
(n. 90)
Japan, Emperor of
445
Japp, Darsie: AJ to
26
Jenkins, A. D. Fraser
xxv
,
44
,
56
‘Jeunes, Les’
207
John, Augusta (
née
Smith) (AJ’s mother): birth
10
; artistic talent
10
; marries Edwin John
10
; arrival in Tenby
3
; birth of her children
3
,
4
,
5
; encourages children to draw
10
; health deteriorates
5
; death
7
,
11
,
23
; legacy
12
,
30
John, Augustus (
see also
Chronology and Itinerary, pp.
615–22
)
1878–94
birth
3
; loves walks with father
4–5
; corrupted by circus
6
; shyness
6–7
; friendship with servants
7
; encouraged to draw by mother
10
; utters only grunts
13
; tests Thornton’s endurance
14
; trails girls across sandhills
15
; life passes in fantasy
15
; love of the outdoors and Tenby harbour
15–16
; roams further afield
17
; ‘big landmark’ of early puberty
59–60
; hero-worship of Robert Prust
17
; schooling
19–21
,
29
; partially deafened by blows to the ears
19
,
20
; devastated by Allen Evans
21–2
; relationship with father
22–3
,
25–6
,
27
,
28
; worried by Gwen’s (
q.v.
)
self-neglect
25
; undermines her confidence
28–9
; desperate to leave Tenby
29–30
; decides to study art
30–1
1894–99
early days at Slade
32–3
,
34
,
35–7
; friendship with McEvoy and Evans (
qq.v.
)
37–8
; taught by Wilson Steer
38–9
; loyalty to Tonks
40
; successful at Slade
40
; diving accident at Giltar Point
41–2
; convalesces
42–3
; tentative declaration of love
43
,
60–1
; is transformed on return to Slade
43–6
; with Gwen in London
47–9
; finds the girls at Slade ‘supreme’
49–50
,
51
; and Whistler’s appearance in the Life Class
56–7
; friendship with Orpen (
q.v
)
51–2
; continued successes at the Slade
53–5
; becomes involved with Ida (
q.v.
)
61
,
64–5
,
67
; disliked by Ada Nettleship (
q.v.
)
65
,
66
; takes Charlotte St studio
68
; with Evans and McEvoy in Amsterdam
40
,
55
,
67–8
; claustrophobia in Tenby
55–6
; leaves Slade in glory
56
1899–1902
meets Whistler in Paris
72–3
; with Gwen at Swanage
74
; work accepted by the New English Art Club (
q.v.
)
51
; commissions and absent husbands
69–70
; campaigns against Richmond’s St Paul’s mosaics
74–5
; first one-man show
75
; with Rothenstein and Conder (
qq.v.
)
at Vattetot-sur-Mer
75–7
; meets Wilde in Paris
78
; impressed by Daumier and Puvis de Chavannes
78–9
; exhibits at the NEAC
93–4
; ‘saturnalias’ in London
79–81
; breaks with Ida
82
; at Swanage with Conder
82–3
; affair with ‘a superb woman of Vienna’
83–4
; on Mafeking Night
84–5
; with the Rothensteins and Salaman at Le Puy
85–8
; dislikes Orpen’s portrait
44
; marriage
88–90
; in Liverpool
96–8
; friendship with the Dowdalls
98–9
, and Sampson (
qq.v.
)
100
,
101–4
; excitement over the gypsies
104
, and Ida’s pregnancy
105
,
106
; takes up etching
107–9
; another accident
109–10
; spends more time with the gypsies
111–12
; and the birth of his son
112–13
,
114
; leaves the Art School
114
; happy to be back in London
116
1902–5
at Jack Nettleship’s deathbed
118
; drinking heavily
118
; Café Royal a home from home
119–21
; meets Yeats and Wyndham Lewis (
qq.v.
)
121
; at Caspar’s birth
123
; attaches himself to Will Rothenstein
123–4
; portrait of Ida voted Picture of the Year at the NEAC
124–5
; affair with Cerutti
125
,
126–7
; meets Dorelia McNeill (
q.v.
)
127
,
128–9
; pictures exhibited at; the Carfax
135
; abandoned by Dorelia
135–6
; dreams of ‘the broad, open road’
133–4
; leases Elm House, Matching Green
138
; helps Edna Clarke Hall (
q.v.
)
139
; collaborates with Orpen in Chelsea Art School
138–9
,
140
; life divided between town and country
143
,
144–5
; dark moods and ‘blank misery’
144
,
145–6
; lugubrious days at Elm House
148–9
; Paris and Dorelia’s disappearance
150–1
; showers Dorelia with letters
157–9
; returns to London with Dorelia
159
,
162
; attentive to Ida in her pregnancy
163
,
164
; ‘call of the road’ upon him
164–5
; at Robin’s birth
166
; burlesque friendship with Rothensteins
170–3
,
174
; difficulties in the
ménage
175–82
; buys caravan from Salaman
182
; and birth of Dorelia’s first son
183
; happy summer on Dartmoor
184–5
; roams between London and Liverpool
185
; and Ida’s Paris scheme
186
,
187
; on better terms with Ida’s mother
188–9
; marshals tribe in Paris
191
,
192–3
1905–8
finds an apartment
193
; terrorized by the children
195
; and move to rue Dareau
197
; tries to sell Chelsea Art School
199
; British Museum makes request for his etchings
200
; exhibits at Chenil Gallery
200
,
201
; motives behind friendships
201–2
,
203
; sees more of Wyndham Lewis
202–3
; involvement with Lamb (
q.v.
)
205–6
; begins affair with Alick Schepeler (
q.v.
)
209–14
; and Romilly’s birth
215
; relationship with Epstein (
q.v.
)
203–5
; at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes
215
,
216–17
,
218–20
; to Paris
220
, and London
221
; Christmas at the rue Dareau
224–5
; moves into Paris Studio
228–30
; paralysed by Ida’s illness
230–1
; enthusiastic about Henry
231
; refuses Ida nothing
232
; remains with her
233
; extraordinary relief after her death
233–4
; absence from the cremation
234
; her death a catalyst
236–7
; loses children to Ada Nettleship
237–8
; continues negotiations over Chelsea Art School
239–40
; summons Dorelia and babies to Equihen
241–2
,
246–7
; seeks solitude
247–8
; finds Euphemia Lamb ‘an irresistible boy’
250
; and Ada Nettleship’s removal of children
252–5
; all manner of schemes with Dorelia
255–6
; sells Paris studio lease
256–7
; meets Picasso
257
; invited to paint Yeats
242–6
; says goodbye to ‘the Schepeler’
258
; depressed by English art world
258
,
259
; meets Fry
259
; feels hemmed in
259–60
; to marry or not to marry Dorelia
270
1908–10
romance with Ottoline Morrell
260–7
,
268
,
269
; sets off for Spain but remains in Paris with Dorelia
270–1
; heated exchanges with Ada Nettleship
272–3
; abducts his children
273–4
; at Diélette
275
; Edna Clarke Hall as model for ‘Girl on the Cliff’
276–7
; leases Church Street studio
277–8
; broken collar-bone and bourgeois winter
278
,
283
; paints Nicholson
278–9
; takes to Surrey roads
279–80
; receives a man’s ear
282–3
; fired by Macfie to recruit for Gypsy Lore Society
283–4
; paints Jane Harrison
285
; encamps at Grantchester
285–7
; portrait of Dowdall
287–9
,
291–3
; absconds to Wales
289–90
; adventuring and bloody combat
290–1
; and the end of travelling life
293–4
; sees a lot of Arthur Symons (
q.v.
)
294–9
; portrait of Quinn (
q.v.
)
299–300
; their friendship
300–4
; melancholia and dissatisfaction
305
; feels he must live apart from Dorelia
306–7
; in Provence
307–11
, and Italy
311–13
; back to Provence and anxious letters to Dorelia
313–15
; with Dorelia and children at Martigues
315
,
316–19
; gypsy scholarship and ‘inveterate whores’
319–20
; and Ottoline Morrell’s visit
320–1
; unsettled by Frank Harris
321–5
; terrified by Dorelia’s illness
325–6
; returns to London
326
1910–14
position in the art world
329–36
; Provençal studies exhibited at Chenil
326
,
334
,
338–40
,
348
; ‘a bloody show!’
341–2
; recommends artists to Quinn
342–3
,
353–4
; and the Allied Artists’ Association
347–8
; admitted to Camden Town Group
348
,
352
; withholds work from Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition
348–9
,
350–1
; with Innes (
q.v.
)
in Wales
352
,
354–5
; hot embrace in London
357–8
; in Wales with Innes again
359
; and move to Alderney Manor
359
,
360
,
361
,
365
; in Liverpool
361
; days (and nights) at Alderney
369–71
; affairs and flirtations
372–4
; pursued by Mrs Strindberg
374–8
,
380
; careers over France with Quinn
378–80
; hires Hope-Johnstone as tutor
382–5
; sends children to Dane Court
385
,
386–7
; bewildered by Caspar’s choice of career
387–8
; love of babies
388
; Pyramus’s death and Poppet’s birth
389–90
; in Ireland with Gogarty
390–1
, and Macnamara
392–3
; at Chirk Castle
393–5
; takes Llwynythyl with Holbrooke and Sime
395
; in Marseilles and Paris, and back in Wales
395–6
; overwhelmed by Lane’s (
q.v.
)
picture
396–7
; produces best work
397
; well represented at the Armory Show (1913)
334
,
488
; many houses
397
; commissions Mallord Street house
397–400
; sheds Welsh cottages
400
; meets ‘excellent people’ at Lamorna
400
; and Brownsword’s pregnancy
413–15