Augustus John (153 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
Gwen John to
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159
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,
182–3
Ida John to
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McNeill, Edie
see
Macnamara, Edie
McNeill, Jessie
see
Slade, Jessie
McNeill, Kate Florence (
née
Neal)
128
,
381
McNeill, William George
127–8
Madrid, Spain
484
Maeterlinck, Madame
250
Mafeking Night, Trafalgar Square on
84–5
Magazine of Fine Arts
333
Maggie (‘Minger’) (cook)
126
,
142
,
143
,
175
,
183
Maiden Castle, Dorset
526
Mailer, Norman
575
Maitland, Helen
see
Fry, Helen
Maitland, Paul
345
Majorca
512
Mallord Street (No.
28
), Chelsea
397–400
,
497
; parties at
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,
421–2
,
430
,
444
,
446–7
Mallowan, Max
527
fn
Manchester Guardian
205
,
335
,
412
,
469
,
479
Mancini, Antonio: portrait of Yeats
245
‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (exhibition)
326
,
327–9
,
330
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
341–2
Mann, Harrington
490
Manresa Road, Chelsea
162
,
181
fn
,
222
Mansfield, Katherine
431
Margaret, Princess
473
Maria Katerina: AJ in love with
83–4
,
87
Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso
343
,
426
,
455
;
Dance Manifesto
455
Mark, Stacy
91
Marseilles, France: teeming with gypsies (1910)
309–11
; ‘beats Liverpool’
313–14
; AJ’s exploits among ‘inveterate whores’
319–20
; AJ takes studio
326
; AJ with Innes and Dorelia (1913)
395–6
Marsh, Eddie
282
Marten, Mary Anna
593
Martigues, Provence
316–17
,
337
,
481–2
,
483
; Villa Ste-Anne
317–20
,
325–6
,
335
,
397
,
482
,
497
; author visits
xix
Martindale, Father Cyril
541
,
544
Martini, Alberto
455
Martini, Simone
307
Massey, Raymond
519
Massey, Vincent
514
Massey, William
441
Masterman, C. F. G.: Dodgson to
429–30
Matching Green, Essex: Elm House
138
,
141–4
,
145–6
,
148–9
,
162–3
,
166–70
,
175–6
,
182
,
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,
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,
186
Matisse, Henri: full of ‘worst art school tricks’
329
; Huneker on
334
; AJ sees his work in Paris
336
; AJ’s opinions on
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,
344
; AJ’s work compared to
340
,
515
; mentioned
328
,
352
‘The Dance’
335
Matthews, Muriel (
née
Shute)
15
fn
,
632
(n. 8)
Matthiesen Gallery, London
571
,
572
Maugham, Liza: Gerald Kelly to
586
Maugham, Syrie
514
Maugham, William Somerset:
The Moon and Sixpence
674
(n. 1)
Maupassant, Guy de
145
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
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
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
Moorehead, Alan: attempts to write AJ’s biography
xiii
,
583–4
Morgan, Charles
45
; AJ’s portrait
593
Morgan, Evan
see
Tredegar, Lord
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
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Katherine Mansfield to
431
Morrell, Philip
262
,
266–7
,
269
,
507
Morris, Edward:
Lord Leverhulme
468
Morris, Jan
407
Mousehole, Cornwall
561
Muggeridge, Malcolm: interview with AJ
592
Muirhead, David
200
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
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
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,
387
; death
548
; mentioned
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,
141
,
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,
487
Augustus John to
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,
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,
453
Ida John to
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,
105
,
109–10
,
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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
190
fn
; 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
Ada Nettleship to
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,
231–2
,
237–8
,
251
,
252
Edward Nettleship to
254–5