Augustus John
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Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer
John in 1902 by George Charles Beresford
W.B. Yeats (1907)
"Artist John," on a 1928 Time magazine cover.
Augustus John poses for the American press on board a ship.
Dorelia McNeill
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Dorelia McNeill was best known as a model for the Welsh artists Gwen John and Augustus John, was the mistress of the latter, and has been credited for inspiring "his first unequivocally personal work"
Augustus John
…century. John established an artists' colony there in 1911. Faye Hammill relates how he lived there with "his five legitimate children, his mistress Dorelia McNeill, and his two children by her; and they remained there until 1927, in the company of numerous long-term guests". One frequent visitor was fellow artist…
Dorelia in a Black Dress (c.1903–04) by Gwen John