Gwen John
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Gwendolen "Gwen" 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
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
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"
Gwen John
…continued living", "while Ambrose and Mary moved down to Shrivenham in Oxfordshire" in around 1903. In late 1903, she travelled to France with her friend Dorelia McNeill (who was Augustus John's lover; their daughter, Vivien John, would also become an artist). When she first arrived in France, she lived in poverty…
Dorelia in a Black Dress (c.1903–04) by Gwen John