Augustus John (156 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
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
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,
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,
75–6
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
259
,
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,
547
Ambrose McEvoy to
88
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, Anthony
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
,
36
l,
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
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
451
Walter Raleigh to
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Sampson, Margaret (
née
Sprunt)
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,
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,
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,
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,
451
Augustus John to
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Gwen John to
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Ida John to
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
226
Sampson, Michael
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,
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,
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,
549
; John Sampson to
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,
452
Sargent, John Singer: England’s pre-eminent portrait painter
51
; impressed by AJ’s drawings
54
; Sir William Richmond on
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; 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’
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(n. 124); mentioned
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,
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,
428
,
468
,
521
Saunders, Edie
589
Saunders, Fred
589
Schepeler, Alexandra (‘Alick’): ‘strange charm’
209–10
; relationship with AJ
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,
210–13
,
218–21
,
222
; AJ’s portraits and drawings
213–14
,
225
,
258
; Dorelia banishes
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,
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,
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; death
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; mentioned
359
Augustus John to
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,
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,
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,
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Schepeler, John Daniel
209
Schepeler, Sarah (
née
Briggs)
209
Schwabe, ‘Birdie’
422
Schweitzer, Albert: sits to AJ
593
Scobel, Emile
77
Scott, Dr Clifford
534
Scott, Stevenson
493
Scrutton, Hugh
293
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1912)
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
350–1
Segonzac, André
345
Selborne Church, Hampshire
590
Seymour, Miranda:
Ottoline Morrell…
268
Shakespeare, Olivia: W. B. Yeats to
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fn
Shakespeare, William
525
Hamlet
37
King John
73
King Lear
73
Sonnet CXLVI
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The Winter’s Tale
62
Shankland, Virginia
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Shannon, Charles
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Shaw, Charlotte (
née
Payne-Townshend)
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; described by AJ
411
Shaw, G. Bernard: ‘bearded demon’
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,
445
; ‘subject of a bust by Rodin’
49
; sits to AJ
410–11
; described by
411
; AJ’s portraits
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,
411–12
,
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,
464
; praises
The Silver Tassie
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; ‘gorgeous thing’
528
; brought in to amuse Montgomery
559–60
; ‘too old for sittings’
593
Shelley, Lillian (model)
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,
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Shephard, Nicolette
see
Devas, Nicolette
Shephard, Rupert
528
Sherrington, Sir John: AJ portrait
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(n. 49)
Shone, Richard
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,
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,
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,
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;
Bloomshury Portraits
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Shute, Dale
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fn
Shute, Muriel
see
Matthews, Muriel
Shute, Victor Lauder
15
fn
Shute, Winifred (
née
John): birth
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,
5
; childhood
5
,
12–13
,
14
; education
13
,
18–19
; character
14–15
,
24–5
; relationship with father
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,
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,
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
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fn
,
25
,
126
; difficult relationship with Thornton
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; becomes an accomplished violinist
14
,
15
fn
; marriage and children
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fn
,
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,
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,
438
; appeals to AJ not to write memoir of Gwen
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; mentioned
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Augustus John to
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,
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,
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Ida John to
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,
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,
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,
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Sibthorp, Veronica, Dylan Thomas to
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fn
Sickert, Robert
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Sickert, Walter: meets AJ
66
; a member of ‘London Impressionists’
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,
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,
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; on Legros
34
; on Newlyn Group
92
; respects AJ’s work
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,
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,
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,
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; clothes
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,
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; member of Artists’ Association
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,
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, and Camden Town Group
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,
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; mentioned
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Siena, Italy
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Signorelli, Luca
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,
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,
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,
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Simpson, F. M.
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Sisley, Alfred
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Sitwell, Georgia
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Sitwells, the
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,
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,
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,
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Slade, Felix
33
Slade, Jessie (
née
McNeill)
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,
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,
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(n. 109)
Slade, Ursula, Dorelia McNeill to
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Slade School of Art, London
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Sliwinski, Jan
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Smith, Augusta (
née
Phillips)
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Smith, F. E.: Lord Beaverbrook to
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Smith, Leah (AJ’s ‘Aunt Lily’)
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,
6
,
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Smith, Mary (
née
Thornton) (AJ’s grandmother)
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,
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
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,
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,
345
,
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,
533
Smith, Lady (Matthew)
see
Salmond, Gwen
Smith, Rosina (AJ’s ‘Aunt Rose’)
5–6
,
11
Smith, Sarah Ann
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Smith, Thomas (AJ’s grandfather)
9
,
10
,
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,
68
Smith, Thomas (his son)
9
Smith, Zadock (AJ’s great uncle)
9
Social Credit Party
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Society of British Artists, The
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Society of Twelve
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,
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,
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,
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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