Augustus John (155 page)
Authors: Michael Holroyd
Jacob Epstein to
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Lady Gregory to
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Augustus John to
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passim,
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Rhoda Symons to
292
W. B. Yeats to
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245–6
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Rainbird, George
585
Raleigh, Professor Walter
99
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‘Rani, the’
see
Dowdall, Mary
Ransome, Arthur:
Bohemia in London
282
Ravenna, Italy, AJ in
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Read, Sir Herbert
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,
426
,
564
,
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,
576
Rebel Art Centre, London
427
Redon, Odilon
488
Reed, Trelawney Dayrell: drops in at Alderney
382
; literary quarrels with AJ
385
; goes to Tenerife with Innes
400
; survives war
450
; on AJ
533
; AJ’s portrait
208
,
450
Reid, B. L.
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The Man from New York
…
300
Reilly, Sir Charles
183
,
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,
637
(n. 71); AJ’s portrait
641
(n. 49)
Augustus John to
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Reinhardt, Max
520
Reitlinger, Gerald
521
Réjane (actress)
408
Rembrandt van Rijn: influence on AJ
55
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67–8
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73
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79
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108
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124
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145
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158
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
344
Renvyle House, Connemara
509
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510
Reveille
436
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
54
Richards, Ceri
171
Richards, Grant
653
(n. 58)
Richmond, Sir William: on John Singer Sargent
93
; desecration of St Paul’s Cathedral
74–5
,
603
; finds Post-Impressionist shows ‘unmanly’
328
, and Fry ‘loathesome’
329
Ricketts, Charles
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,
145
,
328
,
334
,
342
Riddell, Sir George
439
Robert-Fleury, Tony
35
Roberts, Arthur
37
Roberts, William
342
,
407
,
427
,
435
Roberts-Jones, Ivor: statue of Augustus John
xv
Robeson, Paul
546
Robinson, Edward Arlington
58
Rodin, Auguste: as friend of Legros
34
; bust of Shaw
49
,
412
; exhibition at Carfax
75
; affair with Gwen John
159–62
,
196
,
217
; asks Gwen to model nude again
223
; drawings admired by AJ
236
; Gwen John will not leave him
401
; death
436–7
; as link between Gwen John and the Symonses
550
; mentioned
xviii
‘Le Baiser’
293
Rogers, Claude
517
Rosenberg, Harold
336–7
Rossetti, William Michael
66
Rossetti Studios, Flood Street
139
,
200
Rothenstein, Albert
see
Rutherston, Albert
Rothenstein, Alice (
née
Knewstub; stage name ‘Kingsley’): with the Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party
75
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76
,
77
; reaction to AJ and Gwen’s occupation of their house
81
; at Le Puy with AJ and Rothenstein
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; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida
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; Hudson in love with
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; friendship with Ida
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168–70
,
see also Ida John to
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below
);
sits to AJ
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; disliked by Gwen John
172
; horror at Paris scheme
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; mistakes Pyramus for Ida’s baby
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Augustus John to
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Ida John to
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Lady Prothero to
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William Rothenstein to
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Rothenstein, Sir John: on AJ’s reaction to Gwen John’s work
49
; on AJ
581–2
; on his work
125
,
353
; buys ‘Old Lady’ for Tate
637
(n. 74); on Orpen
52
; on William Rothenstein
171
; mentioned
xxi
Augustus John
564
Augustus John to
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Rothenstein, William: on Legros’s methods
34
; Steer on his painting
39
; and Orpen
51
; on young AJ
27
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52
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54
,
58
; introduces AJ to Goya’s work
54–5
; chooses artists for Carfax Gallery
75
; with AJ at Vattetot-sur-Mer
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, and in Paris
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; offers house to AJ and Gwen
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; portrait of AJ
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; with AJ at Le Puy
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; helps AJ sell his work
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; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida
89–90
; entertains artists and writers at Church Row
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,
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; sends AJ on marathon walks
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; on Dorelia
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; and Ida John
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; on AJ’s restlessness
133
; AJ’s portrait
137
; lectures at Chelsea Art School
139
; symptoms of burlesque in his friendship with the Johns
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; becomes disillusioned with AJ
171–2
; welcomes Dorelia as inspiration
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; throws Society of Twelve into confusion
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; opposes AJ’s Paris scheme
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; shocked by AJ’s behaviour with his children
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; puts Dodgson in touch with AJ
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; writes AJ ‘Uriah Heep-like’ letters on Ida’s death
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; AJ recommends as Principal of Chelsea Art School
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; AJ’s financial interest in
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; on Arthur Symons
295
; clash with Fry
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,
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,
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; on AJ in interwar years
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,
505
; on Henry John
541
; on AJ’s prose style
568
; ‘pegs out’
590
; AJ pays tribute in the Tate Gallery Memorial Exhibition Catalogue
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174
; mentioned
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‘The Doll’s House’
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Charles Conder to
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Jacob Epstein to
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Augustus John to
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T. E. Lawrence to
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Neville Lytton to
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Ramsay MacDonald to
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John Quinn to
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Henry Tonks to
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Rousseau, Henri (‘Le Douanier’)
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Rowan, Eric
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Rowse, A. L.
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Royal Academy of Art, London: all-powerful
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; Poynter president of
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; Legros hostile to
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; and Slade
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; NEAC in opposition to
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; ‘vast collection of wrong-minded stuff’
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; academizing process
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; Orpen joins
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; Wadsworth and AJ drill in courtyard
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; AJ’s election (1921)
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; AJ’s work exhibited (1922–
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; Bankhead and Du Maurier portraits exhibited (1930)
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; AJ’s resignation (1938)
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, and re-election (1940)
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; Diploma Gallery exhibition (1954)
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; AJ fails to finish triptych for (1960)
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; the Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition
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; mentioned
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Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours
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‘The Three Graces’
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Ruskin, John
33
Russell, Bertrand
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Russell, Irene
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Russell, Leonard
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Russell, Vera
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Russell, Walter
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Rutherston (Rothenstein), Albert: rather a rake
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; shares Charlotte St studio with AJ
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; one of ‘three musketeers’ at Café Royal
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; with AJ and Orpen in St Paul’s campaign
74
; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party
74–7
; at AJ’s wedding party
89–90
; delivers a kitchen table
96
; on Liverpool life
112
; on AJ’s
ménage
133
; on Gwen John
135
; Gwen John’s contempt for
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; on AJ’s portrait of Fisher
407
; mentioned
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,
201
,
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John Folhergill to
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Paul Nash to
418
William Orpen to
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Henry Tonks to
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Rutherston, Charles: AJ to
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201
Rutter, Frank
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Ryan, Thomas Fortune
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Saint-Bernard Restaurant
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St Catherine’s School, Tenby
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Saint Gaudens, Homer
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St George, Mrs Florence Evelyn (Orpen’s mistress)
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Ste Honorine-sur-Mer, Normandy (1906)
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St Paul’s Cathedral: Sir William Richmond’s desecration of
74–5
,
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St Rémy-de-Provence: Mas de Galeron
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,
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; author visits
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