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 Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over. The age of Augustus John was dawning." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.
John in 1902 by George Charles Beresford
W.B. Yeats (1907)
Chalk drawing of Grace Westry by Augustus John 1897
"Artist John," on a 1928 Time magazine cover.
Gwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although in her lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother Augustus and her mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, awareness and esteem for John's artistic contributions has grown considerably since her death.
Self-Portrait (1902)
Vase of Flowers (c. 1910s)
Mère Poussepin, c. late 1910s, Barber Institute, Birmingham
The Convalescent (c. 1923–1924), one of ten versions she painted of this composition