John Craxton
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John Leith Craxton RA, was an English painter. He was sometimes called a neo-Romantic artist but he preferred to be known as a "kind of Arcadian".
John Craxton in his studio (1983)
The label on the back of Craxton's Tall Goat, 1947
Portrait of John Craxton sleeping by Alexandros Kleidonas (London, 2002)
The back of Craxton's Calamaria, Poros, 1954.
Victor William Watson, also known as Peter Watson, was a British art collector, patron, and magazine editor. During the Second World War, Watson funded Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine and served as
John Craxton
…revival, and his early pre-1945 work shows the influence of Sutherland and Samuel Palmer, and he was also heavily influenced by friend and patron Peter Watson. After the war he travelled to the Isles of Scilly, Switzerland, Istanbul, Spain, Italy, but mainly Greece especially Crete, from 1946 to 1966. He moved…
Watson (centre) with his lover Oliver Messel (right) and Cecil Beaton, c. 1930s