Ida Nettleship
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Ida Margaret Nettleship was a British artist who is best known as the first wife of artist Augustus John.
Ida Nettleship
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"
Ida Nettleship
…became an officer in the Royal Navy, eventually rising to the post of First Sea Lord. Later in 1903, Nettleship's life with John was complicated when Dorelia McNeill became John's model and mistress. From 1903 to 1907, the three lived together in a ménage à trois, first at Matching Green in Essex and from 1905 in…
Dorelia in a Black Dress (c.1903–04) by Gwen John