Augustus John

Although born in India, a child of the British Raj, she lived in Britain from the age of two. Having an English mother and a Welsh father, she identified mostly with the Welsh side, though...

LOM met the painter Augustus John , who asked her to sit for him; they had an intense affair of short duration.

They had in fact spent the money they had saved for a licence, and borrowed from an old flame of Dylan's. Caitlin, beautiful, strong-willed, and undisciplined, was the youngest of four children from a family...

Odle illustrated editions of Voltaire 's Candide, Swift 's Gulliver's Travels, Wilde 's The Sphinx, and Twain 's 1601, among others; his images also appeared in such periodicals as The Gypsy...

The Crabtree was started by Augustus John and others for artists, poets, and musicians. It became a popular gathering place for its intended clientele, as well as for journalists, West End actresses and dancers, art...

AW frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. According to her friend David Garnett , she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...

IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...

It was John Lane and Roger Fry who introduced them to the Bloomsbury circle. The trip did not result in a publishing contract, as GS had hoped, but it did advance her reputation. The next...

FAS also had a hand in the upbringing of Henry John , youngest child of painter Augustus John and his first wife, née Ida Nettleship .

After she left her husband, VA spent a good deal of time at Chaldon in Dorset. There, she was able to write and join a supportive community of artistic friends, including Theodore Powys and...

BR also counted among her friends the flyer Amy Johnson , the artist Augustus John , broadcaster Aled Vaughan , her sister-in-law Agnes Onions (a trained nurse who emigrated to Australia), and Irish...

NH met and became a friend of Augustus John , the bohemian artist par excellence, at the Café Royal, the popular artist haunt in Regent Street.

Brett moved in various distinct social circles. Augustus John was an admired acquaintance. Virginia Woolf , a friend, nevertheless commented in 1921 on Brett being one of the entourage of Lady Ottoline Morrell , and...

Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John (wife of Augustus John , and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann , and Julia Strachey

RL was also a great success with the art-historian Bernard Berenson . Among a younger generation of artists and writers whom she often welcomed as guests were Siegfried Sassoon , W. H. Auden , Christopher Isherwood