Abbey Memorial Trust 597–8
Aberconway, Christabel: AJ to 505, 508
Académie Carmen, Paris 71–2
Académie Julian, Paris 71
Ackerley, J. R. 569
Aimard, Gustave 15
Aitken, Sir Max see Beaverbrook, Lord
Aix-en-Provence, France 320–1, 589
Albany Street, London (No. 61), 81, 85
Alderney Manor, Dorset 359–60, 361, 365–71, 372, 380–1, 416–17, 459, 496
Alexander, Hubert 637 (n. 71); AJ to 565
Alexander, Muriel 128
Alington, Lord 454, 455, 510, 593
Allen, Charles 114
Allied Artists’ Association 240, 330, 347–8
Allinson, Adrian: painting of Café Royal 120
Alpine Club, Mill Street, London 425, 430, 442, 463
Amiens, France 432
Anderson Gallery, New York 493
Anrep, Boris 315, 357; Mallord St mosaic 399, 497
Anrep, Helen see Fry, Helen
Apollinaire, Guillaume 207
Aran Islands 392–3
Arden, Elizabeth 539
Arnold, Matthew 322
Arthur (a groom) 284, 287, 293
Artists’ International Association 560
Ashley, Edith 376
Ashley-Cooper, Dorothea 510
Ashley-Cooper, Lettice 510
Ashwell, Lena: Concerts at the Front 422
Asquith, Lady Cynthia: her impression of AJ’s; ‘Pageant of War’ 435; responds to AJ’s; admiration 439
Augustus John to 27, 431, 434, 441, 442, 443, 475
Asquith, Herbert (son of H. H. Asquith) 419
Asquith, Herbert Henry, Prime Minister 408, 507
Asquith, Margot 428
Astz, Count von 83
Athlone, Earl of 467
Bach, John 424
Bagenal, Barbara (née Hiles) 422, 612
Bakst, Léon 454
Balfour, A. J.: slumbers while AJ paints 409–10; and at Paris Peace Conference 441
Balla, Giacomo 343
Balzac, Honoré de 75, 145, 148, 262, 258; Vie conjugale 87
Bankhead, Tallulah 469–70; AJ’s portrait 470
Barbizon School 91
Barker, Harley Granville 361
Barker, Herbert 424; AJ to 557, 588
Barrie, J. M. 454; The Boy David 519–21
Barry, James 509
Barry, Philip: The Philadelphia Story 511
Baudelaire, Charles 145, 202, 207, 295, 345
Baumer, Lewis 457
Bayeux, Normandy 216, 274, 496
Bazin, Albert 317–18, 397, 482
Beardsley, Aubrey xxii, 36, 66, 93
Beaton, Cecil 473, 498, 500; AJ’s portrait 598;
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken): on AJ’s Alpine Club exhibition 426; starts Canadian War Memorials Fund 430; entertains his Canadians in Paris 433; saves AJ from court-martial 434; on Sir James Dunn’s quarrels with AJ 511; still asking after AJ’s Canadian picture 40 years later 436
Bedford, Stella Maris see Conder, Stella
Beecham, Thomas: AJ’s portrait 593
Beerbohm, Florence 89; Max Beerbohm to 332
Beerbohm, Max: on AJ at Nettleships’ 66; amusing; at a distance 121; and William Rothenstein 171, 172; exhibitions 75, 332; attitude to AJ 332, 533; caricature of AJ 436; mentioned 321
Rutherston to 112
Belfont, Mary 37
Belgium: Dorelia and Leonard in 151, 159; AJ in 158–9
Bell, Clive: in Paris 248; speechless admiration at ‘The Childhood of Pyramus’ 262, 330; as expert on Post-Impressionism 331; his invitation to AJ to exhibit at Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition turned down 348, 351; critical of AJ’s work xxxii, 330, 514, 515; mentioned 268, 350
Walter Lamb to 248
Bell, Quentin 340, 569; Victorian Artists 94
Bell, Vanessa: finds Euphemia Lamb’s scattiness extreme 248; approves ‘The Childhood of Pyramus’ 262, 330; on ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ 327, 328; thinks AJ’s painting sentimental 330; mentioned 268, 517, 521
Virginia Woolf to 480
Belleroche, William de 589; AJ to 590, 595
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood 564–5
Bennett, Arnold 84
Bentinck, Lord Henry 262
Berdyaev, Nicholai 572
Berengaria 492
Berensburg, Monsieur de 13
Bergne, Villiers (Poppet’s husband) 537, 540; AJ to 540
Bernard, Émile 344
Berners, Lord 454
Bertorelli’s, London 418
Bibesco, Princess: describes AJ 213
Binyon, Laurence 339–40; criticism of AJ’s work 107, 330; ‘Rubens, Delacroix and Mr John’ 333
Birch, John 400
Birkbeck, Chiquita 458–60
Birkbeck, Michael 460
Birley, Oswald 514
Blanche, Jacques-Émile 248
Blast 516
Bloch, Frieda 209, 210, 215, 218, 219, 528
Bloomsbury Group xiii-xiv, 248–9, 262, 264, 268, 479
Bloy, Léon 319
Blunt, Anthony: criticism of AJ’s work xxxii, 515
Boldini, Giovanni 455
Bone, James: ‘The Tendencies of Modern Art’ 329–30
Bonnier, Charles 99
Booth, Viva, AJ to 483
Borrow, George xxix, 101–2, 145, 281
Boswell, Dorelia 127
Botticelli, Sandro: ‘Primavera’ 312
Bottomley, Gordon 282
Boudin, Eugène 500
Boughton-Leigh, Chloë: Gwen John portrait 258
Bouguereau, William 35
Bowser, Isabel 550–1
Boy’s Own Paper 61
Bramley, Frank 91
Brangwyn, Frank 590; AJ portrait 593
Brenan, Gerald 385, 538, 588, 589; Partridge to 535; A Life of One’s Own 365, 368, 384
Brett, the Hon. Dorothy 420–1, 422, 432
Brett, the Hon. Sylvia 612
Brighton Evening News 10
British Library xxix
British Medical Association: Epstein’s statues 203–4
British Museum 36, 56, 200, 417
Britten, Benjamin 576, 640 (n. 33)
Brooke, Humphrey 599
Brooke Bond tea card (Famous People No. 31) 43
Brooks, Romaine 353
‘Brotherhood’, the 61
Broule, Alphonse 309
Brown, Frederick: as head of Slade 34–5, 36, 79, 336; on students learning from each other 45; buys AJ’s work 88, 147; member of New English Art Club 93, 107; mentioned 56
Brownell, Sonia (later Orwell) 582
Browning, Robert 61, 117, 263, 322
Brownsword, Nora 413–15
Browse, Lillian: Augustus John Drawings 564
Brunner, Sir John: AJ’s portrait 641 (n. 49)
Brunskill, John 520
Buffalo, USA: AJ in 488–9
Bullen, A. H. (ed.): Yeats’s Collected Poems 242, 244, 245
Burlington Magazine 338, 385, 572
Burne-Jones, Philip 328
Burns, Tom 543; The Use of Memory 540, 547
Bussy, Simon 262
Cadieux (music hall artist) 37
Cadwalladyr (a speechless shrimper) 18
Café Royal, London: AJ’s legendary entrances 70; home from home 119–20, 123; takes Symons there for cure 298; meetings of Allied Artists’ Association 348; waiters and Mrs Strindberg 377; AJ there on night war is declared 401; a bit ‘thick’ in the war 417; AJ lunches in khaki at 430; Cole’s meeting with future wife 524; mentioned 322
Café Verrey, London 418
Cake, Mr (gardener) 499
Callot, Jacques 282
Calloway, Harriet 494
Camargo Society 519
Camden Town Group 240, 335, 347, 348, 349, 351, 352
Cameron, Dr A. J. 506
Campbell, Ivor 450
Campbell, Mrs Patrick: Shaw to 410, 411
Campbell, Roy 453; AJ portrait 369
Campion (Slade door-keeper) 57
Canadian War Memorials Exhibition 430, 435, 436
Cannan, Gilbert 262
Cap Ferrat, France: AJ at 511, 518
Carfax Gallery, London: exhibitions of AJ’s work 75, 88, 98, 118, 173, 240, 257, 295; AJ relies on 107; joint exhibition of AJ’s and Gwen John’s work 135
Carnegie Institute 493; International Exhibition, Pittsburgh (1910) 333, 488
Carrington, Dora xiii, xxv, 421, 422, 495, 500, 502, 526, 612
Augustus John to 493
Cartland, Barbara 560fn
Cary, Joyce: The Horse’s Mouth 339, 674 (n. 1)
Casati, Marchesa (née Luisa Ammon) 454–6; AJ’s portraits 445, 455
Catholic Evidence Guild 541
Cavendish Hotel, London 418
Cave of the Golden Calf, London 417–18
Cazalet, Maud: AJ to 471, 472, 588
Cazalet, Thelma: AJ to 575
Cazin, Jean Charles 555
Cecil, Lord David 59, 366, 465, 501, 585, 600
Cerutti, Estella (Esther) 125, 126–7, 136, 143, 201; AJ’s portrait 125
Cézanne, Paul: AJ sees his work 275, 336, 342, 590; exhibited in ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ 327, 329, 330, 340, 342; not appreciated in lifetime 345, 476; house at Aix 320
Chadbourne, Mrs Emily (American millionairess) 358
Chagall, Marc 345
Chamberlain, Annie (née Cole) 550
Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville 522, 525, 550
Chanler, ‘Sheriff’ Bob 490
Channon, Chips 562
Charlotte Street, London: No.76 68–9, 77, 80, 81, 581; No.101 53
Chelsea Art School, London 139–40, 144, 148, 173, 199, 205, 239–40, 248, 479; prospectus 607–8
Chelsea Palace Theatre: Monster Matinée 422–3, 610–12
Chenil Gallery, London: Orpen persuades Knewstub to open 200; exhibitions of AJ’s work 200, 201, 240, 258, 304, 326, 334–5, 338, 339–40, 348, 397, 412, 425–6; AJ’s studio 222, 356; and Knewstub’s business methods 239, 479; Orpen, Lees and Knewstub in combat 394; Innes Memorial Exhibition 401; see also New Chenil Gallery
Cherbourg, France 274, 281, 496
Chesterton, G. K. 545
Chiaroscuro (AJ’s autobiography) 22, 23, 46, 47, 66–7, 209, 213, 261, 286, 343, 363, 377, 380, 411, 514, 547, 565–70, 573
Chiquita see Birkbeck, Chiquita
Chirk Castle, Wales 393–4, 395
Chitty, Susan: Gwen John 217, 223, 403, 553
Choisseul, Duchesse de 550
Chowne, Mr and Mrs Gerard 238
Christie, Agatha 527fn
Church St, Chelsea (No. 153) 277–8, 356, 357–8
Churchill, Winston 84, 262, 401, 468; sits to AJ 409
Clara (housekeeper) 193, 195, 216, 221, 229
Clark, Sir Kenneth 563
Clements, Keith 206
Clifton, Arthur 75
Clifton College, nr Bristol 20, 26, 29, 37, 59
Coates, Dora 222
Coates, George 222
Cochran, C. B. 518, 519, 520, 521, 537
Codrington, Primrose 521
Cole, Horace de Vere: as Sultan of Zanzibar 270; ‘blood brotherhood’ with AJ 353; practical jokes save AJ 357; motor accident 359; invites himself to Alderney 381–2; masterminds Epstein conspiracy 423; survives war 450–1; rivalry and rages with AJ 523–4; walks with AJ through Provence 524; affair with Mavis 524–5; exiled to France 525; AJ’s revenge 525; disappoints at his funeral 549–50; mentioned 280
Cole, Mavis de Vere (née Mabel Wright) see Wheeler, Mavis
Cole, Tristan Hilarius John de Vere: ‘What a whopper!’ 525; AJ and Dorelia try to adopt 526; with AJ and Dorelia in Jamaica 513, 514; at St-Rémy 522; Mavis Cole abducts 527; memories of AJ and Wyndham Lewis 591; at AJ’s funeral 599; mentioned 528
Augustus John to 595
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 334
Colette 207
Collier, Constance 321
Collioure, France 352
Collis, John Stewart: Marriage and Genius 375
Collis, Maurice 595
Colour Magazine 435
Colvin, Sidney 200
Conder, Charles: appearance 75; exhibits at Carfax 75; with AJ at Vattetot-sur-Mer 75, 76, 77; whoring with AJ in Paris 78; drinking 76, 80; AJ wears his clothes 81, 82; measles and painting in Swanage 82; AJ impressed by his work 82; finds himself married 83; too ill to paint 201; tells Lady Ottoline about AJ 260; speech compared to AJ’s 261; mentioned 68, 321, 339, 500
William Orpen to 94
Conder, Stella (née Bedford) 83
Connard, Philip, AJ to 477
Connolly, Cyril 523, 567, 569, 583; AJ to 575
Conrad, Joseph 299; Quinn to 379; Under Western Eyes 299
Conscience, Hendrik 13
Considerant, Madame Herminie 222
Constable, John 68
Constant, Benjamin 71
Conway of Allington, Lord 469
Coole Park, Ireland 242, 243, 246, 247, 410–11
Cooper, Egerton 467; AJ to 471
Cornwall 400, 561, 574; Henry John’s death in 546–7
Cossa, Francesco del 512
Cotterill, Erica 528; Form of Diary 528
Cowdin, Andrea 525
Crab-tree Club, London 418
Craig, Edith 612
Cripps, Sir Stafford 514
Crowley, Aleister: Confessions 250
Crowninshield, Frank 488
Currie, John 343
D’Abernon, Lord 461, 466, 470, 486; sits to AJ 466–7
Daily Chronicle 335
Daily Express 468
Daily News 261
Daintrey, Adrian 500, 501, 510, 511
Dane Court school 380, 385–7, 538
d’Annunzio, Gabriele 455
D’Arcy, Father Martin 541, 542, 543, 544, 547, 548
Darroch, Sandra Jobson: Ottoline… 268
Darwin, Charles 145
Darwin, Ruth: Jane Harrison to 285
Daudet, Alphonse 319
Daumier, Honoré 78–9, 87, 342, 345
Davenport, John 420, 567; AJ to 270, 557, 570, 587
David, Jacques-Louis 344
Davies, David 7
Davies, Gwendoline and Margaret 669 (n. 56)
Davies, Martha (AJ’s great aunt) 8
Davies, Martha (servant) 8
Davies, Washington (innkeeper) 354
Davies, W. H. 410
Davis, Miss (Edwin John’s housekeeper) 554
Dawson of Penn, Lord 461
Deauville, France 442
de Burgh, Geraldine 59–60
de Castro, Fabian 280–1, 357, 358
Degas, Edgar 34, 92, 342, 344; ‘L’Absinthe’ 93
Delacroix, Eugène 241
de la Mare, Walter: AJ’s portrait 593
Delphine (nanny) 229, 231, 238
Denis, Maurice 342
Derain, André 241, 344, 352, 515, 522
Devas, Anthony 528
Devas, Nicolette (née Macnamara, later Shephard);412, 413, 528, 529; Two Flamboyant Fathers 392, 413, 529, 580
Devlin, Christopher 543
di Soncino, Camillo Casata Stampa 454
Dodd, Francis 258
Dodgson, Campbell 200, 429–30; AJ to 429, 430; A Catalogue of Etchings by Augustus John… 108, 109
Donne, John: ‘The Extasie’ (quoted) xi
Doolin, Co. Clare 392
Doré Gallery, London 478
Dostoevsky, Fyodor 207, 248, 262, 286, 336; Les Possédés 278
Douglas, Norman 562
Dowdall, Harold Chaloner 98–9; and AJ’s portrait 115, 208, 288–9, 291–3
Dowdall, Mary (‘the Rani’): as Ida’s confidante 99; shocking behaviour 99; Liverpool appalled by her novels 99; her home ‘good for the moral tone’ 112; amuses Ida with letters 132–3; stays with Johns 143, 145, 148, 149; letters make ‘green places’ in Ida’s life 169; fears for Ida’s safety, 176; ‘pops off’ 590; mentioned 141, 182, 293, 361
Augustus John to 125, 126, 127, 166, 213, 224, 233–4, 238, 259–60, 287, 288, 290, 291, 313, 461
Ida John to 118–19, 123, 126, 138, 143, 166, 174, 183, 184, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 198, 216, 220, 224–5, 226, 227, 229, 230
Dowdeswell’s, Messrs (gallery) 478
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 488
Doyle, Lady Conan 488
Dudley Gallery, Egyptian Hall, London 91, 478
du Maurier, George: Trilby 33
du Maurier, Gerald: AJ’s portrait 469–70
Duncalf, Bill: AJ to 498
Dunlop, Margaret (later Epstein) 203, 204
Dunn, Sir James 511
Dunn, Kit: AJ’s portrait 445
Dunn, Sir Philip: AJ to 597
Duveen, Lord 455, 463, 470, 485, 676 (n. 40)
Earp, Thomas W.: friendship with AJ 453; spends a hectic week with AJ 483; on AJ’s work 55, 557; helps AJ with Vogue articles 566; with AJ and Moorehead 584; AJ at his funeral 590
Sir Gerald Kelly to 585
Easton, Malcolm xxii–xxiii, 520
Economist, The 478
Eiffel Tower Restaurant, Percy Street, London 67, 419–20, 460, 500, 504, 531, 565, 579
Eliot, T. S.: Wyndham Lewis’s portrait 476, 477
Elizabeth, Queen (later Queen Mother): AJ’s portrait 470–3; 586
Ellis, Edwin 61
Ellis, Henry Havelock 295
Elm House, Matching Green see Matching Green
Elton, Oliver: AJ portrait 641 (n. 49)
Elvey, Maurice, AJ to 457
Empson, William 575
Encounter 560fn
English Review 300
Epsom racecourse: AJ protests against the exclusion of gypsies 284
Epstein, Jacob: as visitor at Rothensteins’ 121; wants no more of Rothenstein’s ‘damned insincere’ invitations 171; friendship with AJ 204; AJ’s portraits of 203; poses for shilling an hour 205; furore over his British Medical Association statues 203–4; AJ asks Ottoline Morrel to help 265; AJ’s boys play in his studio 278; Huneker praises 334; AJ buys and recommends his work 342, 343; with AJ in Paris 395, 396; decorations at the Cave of the Golden Calf 417; sculpts head of AJ 423; accuses AJ of masterminding conspiracy against him 423–4; leads Ormonde Terrace group 427; on AJ’s; sculpture 593; mentioned xxv, 239, 336, 350, 357, 359, 407, 500
Equihen, France (1907) 241–2, 246–7, 250, 251–2; Cazin’s house 555
Étang de Berre, France 316, 335, 339
Etty, William 173
Euston Road artists 537
Evans, Allen 21–2
Evans, Benjamin: friendship with AJ 37–8; with AJ and McEvoy on Pembrokeshire camping trip 41; in Belgium and Holland 40, 55, 67; shares Charlotte Street studio 68; at AJ’s wedding 89; AJ takes up etching at his suggestion 107, 108; shot down the drain 201, 649 (n. 44)
Evans, Mark L. xxv,
Evening Standard 514
Everett, John (Henry): at Slade 52; irritated at AJ’s escaping ‘Ladies Fever’ 78; nonplussed at change in AJ 79–80; AJ sleeps on his chairs 81; on Conder 82; visits Pevril Tower 83; on AJ and whore at Albany Street 85; exhibits at the NEAC 94; surprised at McEvoy’s engagement 115; helps Johns find Alderney 359, 360
William Orpen to 77, 81, 88, 89
Everett, Katherine (née Kathleen Herbert) 52, 359, 360, 548, 638 (n. 89)
Everett, Mrs (landlady) 47, 52–3, 70, 74, 80, 82, 83, 87
Everyman 261
Eyck, Jan van 105
Faico, El (flamenco artist) 281
Fantin-Latour, Henri 34
Farr, Florence: W. B. Yeats to 244
Fearing, Vera see Montgomery, Vera
Fécamp, Normandy, France 76–7
Ferris, Paul 529
Fields, Gracie 497
Fildes, Sir Luke 467
Finishing Touches (AJ’s autobiography) 3, 123, 343, 532, 533, 570, 573
Firbank, Ronald 410, 453, 454, 566
Fisher, Admiral Lord John (‘Jacky’): sits to AJ 407, 451
FitzGibbon, Constantine xiii, 420, 531
Fitzroy Street, London: No.8 257, 259, 262, 269, 271; No.18 96, 116, 118–19, 125, 133, 136, 139; No.21 47–8, 52, 53, 80, 348
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 279
Flandrin, Jules 340
Fleming, Amaryllis Marie-Louise (AJ’s daughter) 461–2, 534–5, 600
Augustus John to 595
Dorelia McNeill to 373
Fleming, Eve: redoubtable 457; passionately admires AJ 458; wants his child 458; tries to adopt Chiquita’s baby 460; birth of her daughter 461; AJ’s portraits 457; as go-between to Dudley Tooth 480; at the Taillteann Games in Dublin with AJ 485; in Berlin with AJ 485; encourages AJ at Preston Deanery Hall 506, 508; fights in court for Marquis of Winchester 595; mentioned 534
Fleming, Ian 458
Fleming, Michael 458
Fleming, Peter 457
Fleming, Richard 458
Flodin, Hilda 217
Florence, Italy 312; and burning of Lord Leverhulme’s effigy 468
Flower, Mrs: and the Chelsea Art School 199, 239
Forain, Jean-Louis 344
Forbes, Stanhope 92
Ford, Brinsley 585
Fordingbridge Parish Church 599–600
Forge, Andrew 56
Forio, Italy 487
Forster, E. M. 576
Fort, Robert 207
Foster, Jeanne xviii, 491, 492, 551
Fothergill, John: appearance 353; opens Carfax Gallery 75; on AJ’s first caravan trip 279, 280; relationship with Innes 352, 353; friendship with E.P. Warren 293, 353; his public house at Thame 538
Augustus John to 234
Fourier, Charles 576
France: Innes in 352; AJ and Quinn career through 377–80; in World War I 431–4; AJ’s last journey 589–90; the author researches in xviii–xix; for other visits by AJ see Cap Ferrat; Equihen; Le Puy; Marseilles; Martigues; Meudon; Nice; Normandy; Paris; Provence
Franco, General Francisco 484, 576, 588
Fraser, Sir Angus xxvi–xxvii, xxix
Fraser-Simon, H. 610
Freedom Defence Committee 576
Freeman, John: AJ to 339, 450, 466, 470, 564
Friesz, Othon 345
Fry, Helen (née Maitland) 269, 279, 314, 315–16, 325, 357, 415
Fry, Roger: and Tonks at NEAC 93; appointed Art Critic of the Athenaeum 94; on AJ’s work 127, 173; and Rothenstein 171; AJ remains separated from 240, 249; ‘quite a lively person’ 259; joins AJ in caravan 279; his ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ exhibition (1910) 326, 327–9, 331, 334, 335, 336, 340, 341–2; criticism of AJ’s work xxxii, 331, 338–9; parallel development to AJ 340; AJ’s opinion of him 340; Tonks’s campaign against him 39, 40; his ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’ (1912) xiv, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 348, 349, 350–1; clash with Rothenstein 349–50; Omega Workshops 335, 346, 426; marries Helen Anrep (see Fry, Helen) 316; mentioned 268, 334
Fryern Court, nr Fordingbridge 498–502, 601; author visits Dorelia at xv, xvi–xvii, xxiii
Fuller, Governor, of Massachusetts: AJ fails to finish portrait 493–4
Furniss, Harry 91
Furr, Nellie 395
Furse, Charles 68
Gainsborough, Thomas 54
Galway City, Ireland 405–6
Gandarillas, Don José-Antonio 439–40
Garbo, Greta 598
Garnett, Constance: translations of Turgenev 101
Garthwaite, Dolly (née Duveen): AJ to 521
Garrido, Leandro Ramón 139
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri 343
Gauguin, Paul: admired by AJ 241, 258, 329, 341–2, 344; exhibited in ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ 327, 341–2; AJ compared to 243, 340; not appreciated in lifetime 345
Gaunt, William 590
Genoa, Italy 311
George V, King 470
George, Daniel 568, 570; AJ to 570, 596
George, William 8
Géricault, Théodore 150
Gertler, Mark 343, 396, 660 (n. 41)
Gertz, Elmer: AJ to 324
Gill, Eric: on the sheep and the goats 329; AJ’s opinions on his work 343, 660 (n. 41); discussions with AJ at Ditchling 356; helps form Artists’ International Association 560; mentioned 350
Augustus John to 341
Gilman, Harold 330, 335, 336, 343, 348, 427
Ginner, Charles 343, 348, 417, 427; ‘The Café Royal’ 120
Giotto 312
Glenavy, Beatrice, Lady 422
Gogarty, Oliver St John: first meeting with AJ 390–1; pronounces AJ’s ears as Seat of his Melancholy 391; their lifelong infuriating friendship 391; AJ’s portraits 391, 410; AJ steers his Rolls-Royce 447; poem on AJ’s driving 448–9; warns Dunsany not to give AJ alcohol 485; invites AJ to assist at opening of hotel 509; arranges for ‘serious’ portrait of Yeats 509, 510; goes to USA 590; mentioned 424; ‘To Augustus John’ 391–2
Augustus John to 434, 435, 506
Gogh, Vincent van 259, 327, 340, 341, 344, 345, 476, 511, 574
Goodyear, Conger 489, 492, 508; AJ to 558, 561, 563
Goodyear, Mrs: sits to AJ 489
Gore, Spencer: remembers AJ at Slade 44; exhibits at Allied Artists’ Association 330; recommended by AJ to Quinn 343; with Camden Town Group 335, 348; frescoes Cave of the Golden Calf 417; mentioned 136, 336
Gough, Sylvia 415–16
Goupil Gallery, London 240, 396
Goward, Mr (schoolteacher) 19, 20
Goya, Francisco de 54–5, 145, 484
Grafton Gallery 478; ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (1910) 326, 327–9, 330, 331, 334, 335, 336, 340, 341–2; ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’ (1912) xix, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 348, 349, 350–1
Graham, Constance 562
Graham, Harry: ‘Augustus John’ 610–12
Graham, Robert Cunninghame 121
Grainger, Percy 282
Gramophone 383fn
Granero (matador) 483
Grant, Duncan: studying in Paris 248; sickened by Lambs 249, 250; stimulated by Lady Ottoline 262; sees Gwen John 436; associated with Euston Road artists 517; mentioned 346
Maynard Keynes to 286
Lytton Strachey to 249
Graves, Robert 510
Gray, Cecil 448, 450, 562, 566; AJ to 504
Gray, Ronald: Tonks to 40
Gray, Stuart 427 and fn.
Greaves, Walter 343
Greenhill School, Tenby 19–20, 26, 29
Gregory, Anne 410
Gregory, Lady Augusta: meets AJ 145; invites him to Coole Park 242; discusses literary matters with Yeats 243; reactions to AJ etching of Yeats 244, 245; influence on AJ 280; invites AJ to Coole again 359; uses Shaw as bait to lure AJ 410, 411; mentioned 393
John Quinn to 299–300
Gregory, Richard 410
Gregory, Robert 242–3, 246, 410, 411
William Orpen to 51
Grigson, Geoffrey 517, 569; Wyndham Lewis to 517
Griller Quartet 472
Groome, Francis Hindes: Kriegspiel 101
Grosvenor Gallery, London 478
Grunfeld, Frederick V.: Rodin… 217
Guardian 568
Guevara, Alvaro (‘Chile’) 343, 381, 500
Guiche, Duchesse de 442
Guilbert, Yvette 70
Gumfreston Church, nr Tenby 23, 554
Guys, Constantin 345
gypsies: AJ warned against by father 4; he feels kinship with 26, 27, 48, 56; AJ, McEvoy and Evans meet up with tinkers in Wales 41; and John Sampson 100–3; AJ welcomed as fellow vagrant 104; AJ etchings of 108, 109; AJ spends more time with 111–12; and AJ’s creation of Dorelia 127; at Matching Green 138; at Ste-Honorine 215, 217, 218; AJ’s urge to be closer to 280, 281–2; Fabian de Castro 280–1; at Cherbourg 281; plot to expel from Europe 281; send AJ amputated ear 282; AJ protests against their exclusion from Epsom racecourse 284; Matthew Wood and bloody combat in Wales 289–91; frighten Hugh Lane out of wits 305; Marseilles teeming with 309–11; grand reunion in Milan 312–13; at Villa Ste-Anne 319; evening in Essex 358; Dorothy Brett recalls 421; AJ no longer paints 453; AJ petitions MPs on their behalf 560; look on AJ as brother and champion; see also Sampson, John: Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
Gypsy Lore Society xix, xxvi, xxix, 283, 284, 311fn, 319, 549, 56l
Haddon, Trevor: AJ to 239
Haggard, Henry Rider 385
Hake, Egmont 201
Hale, Kathleen 368–9, 445–6, 449, 453; A Slender Reputation 530
Hall, Edna Clarke (née Waugh): a Slade School ‘genius’ 50, 54, 61; on Tonks and AJ 53–4; friendship with Ida John 62, 65, 118; marriage and effect on artistic life 50, 51, 139–40; AJ shatters peace at party 67; attends life-drawing classes at Chelsea Art School 139, 140; devasted by Ida’s death 276; ill at ease with Dorelia 276; poses for ‘Girl on the Cliff’ and kissed by AJ 276–7; AJ’s children farmed out with 271, 278; mentioned 86, 552
Hall, Very Reverend George 283
Hall, William Clarke 50, 51, 62, 139–40, 276; Edna Clarke Hall to 65
Hamilton, Duchess of 407
Hamnett, Nina: ‘the Sybil of Soho’ 419; on AJ 206
Augustus John to 58
Hardy, Florence 464–5
Hardy, Thomas: his poems ‘wonderful things’ 103; meeting with AJ 464; AJ’s portrait 208, 464–5
Harris, Frank: first meeting with AJ 321; appearance 321; on AJ and his work 119, 299, 322; invites AJ to Nice 307, 322–3, 324, 337; Contemporary Portraits 323–4; The Man Shakespeare 321, 322; ‘The Miracle of the Stigmata’ 322; Undream’d of Shores 323
Harrison, Jane: AJ’s portrait 285, 286
Hart, Miss (ex-pupil of AJ) 196
Hart-Davis, John 416
Hart-Davis, Sybil 416
Hastings, Sussex: Knewstub in 480, 481
Haverfordwest, Wales 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Victoria Place 3–4, 5, 6, 11
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 97
Hay, Sylvia: AJ to 580
Hayward, Lawrence 568
Head, Edward J., R.A. 30
Heald (AJ’s friend) 450
Hearst, Randolph 490
Heine, Heinrich: Florentine Nights 69
Hell, Dr Johann 469fn
Henriques, Fiore de (sculptress) 592
Herbert, A. P. 527fn
Herbert, Kathleen see Everett, Katherine
Herbert, Mary 428
Herkomer, Herbert von: portrait of Admiral Lord Fisher 407
Hicks, Zoë (AJ’s daughter): birth 459–60; Eve Fleming tries to adopt 460–1; relationship with AJ 461–2, 522; and AJ’s last midnight expedition 598–9
Hiles, Barbara see Bagenal, Barbara
Hillier, Bevis: The Early Years of the New English Art Club 91 (quoted)
Hinton, Margaret: Ida John to 167, 168
Hinton, James 637 (n. 66)
Hodgson, Ralph: ‘Time, You Old Gipsy Man’ 282
Holbrooke, Joseph 395, 397, 400
Holden, Inez: AJ to 535
Hone, Nathaniel 299
Hone, Joe 391, 453; AJ’s portrait 208
Hone, Vera 391
Hope-Johnstone, John: engaged as tutor 383–5; sets off for Outer Mongolia 385; arrested as spy 414; offers himself as father to Brownsword’s baby 414–15; dances back from war 451; arrives at Mallord Street with Chiquita 458; AJ’s portraits 201, 208
Augustus John to 396, 398, 399
Hope-Nicholson, Felix: AJ to 575
Hopkinson, Tom 569
Horizon (review) 567
Horniman, Annie 244
Housman, A. E. 653 (n. 58)
Hudson, Nan: Walter Sickert to 407
Hudson, W. H. 121; The Purple Land 102–3
Hugh, Ferdinand G. 131fn
Hughes, Frances xx
Hughes, Richard xx, 373–4, 511, 531, 532, 550, 600
Hughes, William 441
Hulse, Lady: Dorelia McNeill to 548
Hulton, Edward 462–3
Humphries, Ruth 421
Huneker, James G. 334; Quinn to 379; Promenades of an Impressionist 338
Hunt, William Holman 222
Huxley, Aldous 262, 372–3fn, 591; Point Counter Point 674 (n. 1)
Hyde, Montgomery 449–50, 560fn
Illustrated London News 209, 590
Imperial War Museum 442
Independent Society of Artists (New York) 491
Innes, James Dickson: first meeting with AJ 352; in France with Fothergill 352, 353; contracts tuberculosis 352; visits Paris with Matthew Smith 352; falls in love with Euphemia Lamb 352; ‘blood brotherhood’ with AJ 353; AJ recommends landscapes to Quinn 353–4; in Wales with AJ 354–5; buries letters from Euphemia 354; infuriated by arrival of Lipczinski and wife 361; appears on Aran 393; returns to Wales with AJ 393; jealous of Derwent Lees 394; ‘very much of a Welshman’ 347; dejected in Marseilles 395; seriously ill 396; goes to Tenerife with Trelawney Reed 400; death 401; mentioned xxv, 359, 395, 397
International Society of Sculptors, Painters and ’Gravers 258, 478
Ireland, AJ in: with Lady Gregory at Coole Park 242–6, 410–11; with Gogarty 390–1, 447; with Macnamara 392–3; in wartime 405–6; at the Taillteann Games 485; in the 1930s 509–11, 512
Ireland, John 478
Ireland, Lily (model) 395
Ischia, island of 487
Italy: Ida John studies in 63–4; Symons goes mad in 297; AJ travels through (1910) 311–13, (1925) 486–7, (1933) 512–13; strike over Lord Leverhulme portrait 468
Ivor-Jones, Sheila Nansi 534
Jackson, Derek (Poppet’s husband) 537
James, M. R. 655 (n. 90)
Japan, Emperor of 445
Japp, Darsie: AJ to 26
Jenkins, A. D. Fraser xxv, 44, 56
‘Jeunes, Les’ 207
John, Alfred (AJ’s uncle) 9, 11
John, Augusta (née Smith) (AJ’s mother): birth 10; artistic talent 10; marries Edwin John 10; arrival in Tenby 3; birth of her children 3, 4, 5; encourages children to draw 10; health deteriorates 5; death 7, 11, 23; legacy 12, 30
John, Augustus (see also Chronology and Itinerary, pp. 615–22)
1878–94
birth 3; loves walks with father 4–5; corrupted by circus 6; shyness 6–7; friendship with servants 7; encouraged to draw by mother 10; utters only grunts 13; tests Thornton’s endurance 14; trails girls across sandhills 15; life passes in fantasy 15; love of the outdoors and Tenby harbour 15–16; roams further afield 17; ‘big landmark’ of early puberty 59–60; hero-worship of Robert Prust 17; schooling 19–21, 29; partially deafened by blows to the ears 19, 20; devastated by Allen Evans 21–2; relationship with father 22–3, 25–6, 27, 28; worried by Gwen’s (q.v.) self-neglect 25; undermines her confidence 28–9; desperate to leave Tenby 29–30; decides to study art 30–1
1894–99
early days at Slade 32–3, 34, 35–7; friendship with McEvoy and Evans (qq.v.) 37–8; taught by Wilson Steer 38–9; loyalty to Tonks 40; successful at Slade 40; diving accident at Giltar Point 41–2; convalesces 42–3; tentative declaration of love 43, 60–1; is transformed on return to Slade 43–6; with Gwen in London 47–9; finds the girls at Slade ‘supreme’ 49–50, 51; and Whistler’s appearance in the Life Class 56–7; friendship with Orpen (q.v) 51–2; continued successes at the Slade 53–5; becomes involved with Ida (q.v.) 61, 64–5, 67; disliked by Ada Nettleship (q.v.) 65, 66; takes Charlotte St studio 68; with Evans and McEvoy in Amsterdam 40, 55, 67–8; claustrophobia in Tenby 55–6; leaves Slade in glory 56
1899–1902
meets Whistler in Paris 72–3; with Gwen at Swanage 74; work accepted by the New English Art Club (q.v.) 51; commissions and absent husbands 69–70; campaigns against Richmond’s St Paul’s mosaics 74–5; first one-man show 75; with Rothenstein and Conder (qq.v.) at Vattetot-sur-Mer 75–7; meets Wilde in Paris 78; impressed by Daumier and Puvis de Chavannes 78–9; exhibits at the NEAC 93–4; ‘saturnalias’ in London 79–81; breaks with Ida 82; at Swanage with Conder 82–3; affair with ‘a superb woman of Vienna’ 83–4; on Mafeking Night 84–5; with the Rothensteins and Salaman at Le Puy 85–8; dislikes Orpen’s portrait 44; marriage 88–90; in Liverpool 96–8; friendship with the Dowdalls 98–9, and Sampson (qq.v.) 100, 101–4; excitement over the gypsies 104, and Ida’s pregnancy 105, 106; takes up etching 107–9; another accident 109–10; spends more time with the gypsies 111–12; and the birth of his son 112–13, 114; leaves the Art School 114; happy to be back in London 116
1902–5
at Jack Nettleship’s deathbed 118; drinking heavily 118; Café Royal a home from home 119–21; meets Yeats and Wyndham Lewis (qq.v.) 121; at Caspar’s birth 123; attaches himself to Will Rothenstein 123–4; portrait of Ida voted Picture of the Year at the NEAC 124–5; affair with Cerutti 125, 126–7; meets Dorelia McNeill (q.v.) 127, 128–9; pictures exhibited at; the Carfax 135; abandoned by Dorelia 135–6; dreams of ‘the broad, open road’ 133–4; leases Elm House, Matching Green 138; helps Edna Clarke Hall (q.v.) 139; collaborates with Orpen in Chelsea Art School 138–9, 140; life divided between town and country 143, 144–5; dark moods and ‘blank misery’ 144, 145–6; lugubrious days at Elm House 148–9; Paris and Dorelia’s disappearance 150–1; showers Dorelia with letters 157–9; returns to London with Dorelia 159, 162; attentive to Ida in her pregnancy 163, 164; ‘call of the road’ upon him 164–5; at Robin’s birth 166; burlesque friendship with Rothensteins 170–3, 174; difficulties in the ménage 175–82; buys caravan from Salaman 182; and birth of Dorelia’s first son 183; happy summer on Dartmoor 184–5; roams between London and Liverpool 185; and Ida’s Paris scheme 186, 187; on better terms with Ida’s mother 188–9; marshals tribe in Paris 191, 192–3
1905–8
finds an apartment 193; terrorized by the children 195; and move to rue Dareau 197; tries to sell Chelsea Art School 199; British Museum makes request for his etchings 200; exhibits at Chenil Gallery 200, 201; motives behind friendships 201–2, 203; sees more of Wyndham Lewis 202–3; involvement with Lamb (q.v.) 205–6; begins affair with Alick Schepeler (q.v.) 209–14; and Romilly’s birth 215; relationship with Epstein (q.v.) 203–5; at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes 215, 216–17, 218–20; to Paris 220, and London 221; Christmas at the rue Dareau 224–5; moves into Paris Studio 228–30; paralysed by Ida’s illness 230–1; enthusiastic about Henry 231; refuses Ida nothing 232; remains with her 233; extraordinary relief after her death 233–4; absence from the cremation 234; her death a catalyst 236–7; loses children to Ada Nettleship 237–8; continues negotiations over Chelsea Art School 239–40; summons Dorelia and babies to Equihen 241–2, 246–7; seeks solitude 247–8; finds Euphemia Lamb ‘an irresistible boy’ 250; and Ada Nettleship’s removal of children 252–5; all manner of schemes with Dorelia 255–6; sells Paris studio lease 256–7; meets Picasso 257; invited to paint Yeats 242–6; says goodbye to ‘the Schepeler’ 258; depressed by English art world 258, 259; meets Fry 259; feels hemmed in 259–60; to marry or not to marry Dorelia 270
1908–10
romance with Ottoline Morrell 260–7, 268, 269; sets off for Spain but remains in Paris with Dorelia 270–1; heated exchanges with Ada Nettleship 272–3; abducts his children 273–4; at Diélette 275; Edna Clarke Hall as model for ‘Girl on the Cliff’ 276–7; leases Church Street studio 277–8; broken collar-bone and bourgeois winter 278, 283; paints Nicholson 278–9; takes to Surrey roads 279–80; receives a man’s ear 282–3; fired by Macfie to recruit for Gypsy Lore Society 283–4; paints Jane Harrison 285; encamps at Grantchester 285–7; portrait of Dowdall 287–9, 291–3; absconds to Wales 289–90; adventuring and bloody combat 290–1; and the end of travelling life 293–4; sees a lot of Arthur Symons (q.v.) 294–9; portrait of Quinn (q.v.) 299–300; their friendship 300–4; melancholia and dissatisfaction 305; feels he must live apart from Dorelia 306–7; in Provence 307–11, and Italy 311–13; back to Provence and anxious letters to Dorelia 313–15; with Dorelia and children at Martigues 315, 316–19; gypsy scholarship and ‘inveterate whores’ 319–20; and Ottoline Morrell’s visit 320–1; unsettled by Frank Harris 321–5; terrified by Dorelia’s illness 325–6; returns to London 326
1910–14
position in the art world 329–36; Provençal studies exhibited at Chenil 326, 334, 338–40, 348; ‘a bloody show!’ 341–2; recommends artists to Quinn 342–3, 353–4; and the Allied Artists’ Association 347–8; admitted to Camden Town Group 348, 352; withholds work from Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition 348–9, 350–1; with Innes (q.v.) in Wales 352, 354–5; hot embrace in London 357–8; in Wales with Innes again 359; and move to Alderney Manor 359, 360, 361, 365; in Liverpool 361; days (and nights) at Alderney 369–71; affairs and flirtations 372–4; pursued by Mrs Strindberg 374–8, 380; careers over France with Quinn 378–80; hires Hope-Johnstone as tutor 382–5; sends children to Dane Court 385, 386–7; bewildered by Caspar’s choice of career 387–8; love of babies 388; Pyramus’s death and Poppet’s birth 389–90; in Ireland with Gogarty 390–1, and Macnamara 392–3; at Chirk Castle 393–5; takes Llwynythyl with Holbrooke and Sime 395; in Marseilles and Paris, and back in Wales 395–6; overwhelmed by Lane’s (q.v.) picture 396–7; produces best work 397; well represented at the Armory Show (1913) 334, 488; many houses 397; commissions Mallord Street house 397–400; sheds Welsh cottages 400; meets ‘excellent people’ at Lamorna 400; and Brownsword’s pregnancy 413–15
1914–20
and declaration of war 401, 402–3; drills with Wadsworth at RA 402; refuses presidency of Ormonde Terrace scheme 427; sees Gwen John in Paris 403–4; presides at Vivien’s birth 412; and Lady Gregory’s use of Shaw as bait 410; three portraits survive 410–12; plans picture of Galway 405–6, 407; Lloyd George a ‘hot-arse’ 408–9, MacDonald too dim a subject 409, Balfour asleep 409–10; knee operation and rejected for military service 424; wartime affairs 415–16; parties in Mallord Street 421–2; paints Admiral Fisher 407; Epstein sculpts his head and suspects conspiracy 423–4; exhibits at the Alpine Club 425–6; paints Lady Cynthia Asquith 428–9; produces lithograph for British Aims and Ideals 429; off to war as a Canadian Major 430; calls on Gwen John 436–7; billeted at Aubigny 431–2; with Wyndham Lewis at Lieven 432–3, 434; as guest of Lord Beaverbrook 433; knocks out fellow officer 434; back in England ‘in a state of utter mental confusion’ 434–5; starts Canadian cartoon and ‘Fraternity’ 435–6; at Adelphi on Armistice Day 438–9; attends Paris Peace Conference 439–41; begins friendship with T. E. Lawrence 454; paints Lawrence and Marchesa Casati 454–5; reluctant to be demobilized 441–2; ‘very unstable’ 442; as guest of Lloyd George 442; exhibits portraits at Alpine Club 442; has nose operation 442
1920–9
Kathleen Hale as secretary 445–6; non-election to Royal Academy 475; and Lord Leverhulme’s decapitated portrait 467–9; Mallord Street parties 446–7; finds motor cars irresistible 447–50; speaks of suicide 450; interested in Sampson’s dictionary 452; Casati and other women 456–7; affairs with Eve Fleming 457–8, 461, and Chiquita 458–9 (see Hicks, Zoë; Fleming, Amaryllis); paints Suggia 462–4; in Spain 483–5; first visit to USA 487–92; last meeting with Quinn 491–2; meets and paints Hardy 464–5; second visit to USA 492–3; ‘only drunk’ (not mad) at Taillteann Games 485; lays foundation stone for New Chenil Galleries 478–9; in Berlin with Eve Fleming 485, 486; paints Stresemann 461, 485–6; en famille in Ischia 486–7; walks through Provence with Cole 524; begins portrait of Lord D’Abernon 466–7; and move to Fryern Court 496, 498–9, 500; ‘gloom, gloom, gloom’ 501–2; helps Gwen John buy Yew Tree Cottage 551, 552; paints du Maurier 469–70; sells Villa Ste-Anne 496–7; last voyage to USA 493–6; elected to RA 476; drinking heavily 504–5; consults psychologist 505–6
1929–42
exhibits at Tooth’s Gallery 480; designs sets for O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie 518–19; begins portrait of Montagu Norman 465–6; agrees to ‘rest cure’ at Preston Deanery Hall 506–8, 511; taken in hand by Dorelia 508–9; paints Yeats 509–10; admiring entourage at Renvyle 510–11; draws Joyce 511–12; Sampson bequeaths him Smith and Wesson revolver 548–9; attends scattering of Sampson’s ashes 549; in Majorca 512; with Ada Nettleship at her death 548; in Venice with Vivien 512–13; affair with Mavis Cole 525–6, 527–8; as Tristan’s father 525, 526, 527; identifies son’s body 547; hopes for miracle at Cole’s funeral 549–60; with Caitlin (q.v.) and Dylan Thomas in Laugharne 531–3; elected President of Gypsy Lore Society 561; scenery and costumes for Barrie’s The Boy David 519–21; in Jamaica 513–14; attends father’s funeral 554; resigns from RA 476–7; challenges Mortimer Wheeler to duel 526–7; signs contract with Jonathan Cape for autobiography 566–7; begins portrait of Queen 470–3; and outbreak of Second World War 522, 557; labours over ‘The Little Concert’ 557–8; unsatisfactory wartime portraiture 558–60; gets Shaw to amuse Montgomery 559–60; petitions MPs on behalf of gypsies 560; has evacuees at Fryern 561; unperturbed by air raids 562; stature grows 562; life ‘a hideous sham’ 563; contributes to Horizon 567; offered knighthood 564; Dorelia refuses him 564; pleased with Order of Merit 564–5
1942–61
quarrels with Edwin 571–3; returns to St-Rémy 574; begins ‘Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer…’ 595–8; thinks of writing Gwen John memoir 572–3; ‘immobilized with work’ at Fryern 580; continues jousting with Wyndham Lewis 590–1; ‘a ghost’ 575; Moorehead suggests he write AJ’s biography xiii, 583–4; publishes Chiaroscuro 565–6, 567–70; feels ‘longings to sculpt’ 592–3; Finishing Touches languishes 570; politics in 1950s 575–8; studies of ‘old buffers’ 593–4; RA exhibition of works 585–7; double operation 587–8; convalesces in Spain 588–9; last journey abroad 589–90; interviewed by Muggeridge 592; publishes Fifty-five Drawings 585; at Earp’s funeral 590; with Matthew Smith in Chelsea 591–2; given Freedom of Tenby 594; ‘Work as usual’ 595; phantoms from past 595; begins portrait of Beaton 598; meets Greta Garbo 598; at Trafalgar Square sit-down 578–9; last weeks and death 599; funeral 599–600; grave xv; obituaries 600; memorial service 600; memorial statue xv
appearance and clothes: as young man 44, 45, 46, 57, 58, 59, 70, 96, 119, 212–13, 243, 245, 246, 260–1; in his thirties and forties 263, 282, 320, 322, 323–4, 332, 420–1, 444, 449; in his fifties 500–1, 504, 530, 579; in his sixties 529, 562; in old age xiv, 579, 590, 592, 594
artistic influences 54–5, 56, 78–9, 87, 105, 145, 162, 236, 240–1, 257, 355, 484–5
attitudes to art movements and contemporary art 120–1, 341–54, 426–7
attitude to money and his generosity 80, 119–20, 122, 420, 456
attitude to women 59–60, 67–8, 83, 87, 208–9, 504, 528, 530–1, 598
autobiographies see Chiaroscuro; Finishing Touches
books read 15, 21, 37, 145, 148, 319, 565–6, 576
character 6–7, 26–8, 38, 43–7, 53–4, 58–9, 60, 70, 79–80, 172, 249–50
criticisms of his work xxxii, 26, 329–36, 425–7, 435, 487, 514-I7, 521–2, 523, 557, 586–7, 600–1
etchings 107–9, 184, 200–1, 203
friendships 38, 201, 203, 208, 453–4
interest in gypsies see gypsies
interest in ‘Red Indians’ 13, 15, 17, 26, 29
melancholia 24, 27–8, 212, 259–60, 305, 442, 450, 501–2, 511, 598–9
poetry 88–9, 151, 566, 582, 609
WORKS (see also pp. 604–6, 613–14)
‘Aminta’ 514
‘Ardor’ 129
‘The Blue Shawl’ 600
‘Calderari’ 396
‘Caravan at Dusk’ 600
‘The Childhood of Pyramus’ 262, 330
‘Daphne’ 514
‘The Dawn’ 429
‘Dorelia in the Garden at Alderney Manor’ xxv
‘Dorelia Standing before a Fence’ 127, 600
‘Esther’ 125
‘The Flute of Pan’ 396
‘French Fisher-boy’ 257
‘Girl on the Cliff’ (‘Nirvana’) 275–6, 277, 279
‘Ida in a Tent’ 600
‘The Jewess’ 641 (n. 42)
‘The Little Concert’ 557–8, 595
‘Lynn Cynlog’ 351–2
‘Lyric Fantasy’ 369, 396–7, 601
‘The Man from New York’ 299–300
‘The Mauve Jersey’ 410
‘Merikli’ 124–5
‘Miss McNeill’ 129
‘Moses and the Brazen Serpent’ 56, 72 and fn
‘The Mulatto’ 641 (n. 42)
‘The Mumper’s Child’ 600
‘Nant-ddu’ 352
‘Old Arthy’ 641 (n. 42)
‘The Old Haberdasher’ 641 (n. 42)
‘Old Lady’ 69
‘Out on the Moor’ 184
‘The Pageant of War’ 435–6
‘Peasant Woman with Baby and Small Boy’ 257
‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ 184
‘Phyllis’ 514
‘The Red Skirt’ 600
‘Rustic Scene’ 638 (n. 88)
‘Les Saintes-Maries de la Mer with Sainte Sara, l’Egyptienne’ 319, 595–6, 597–8, 601
‘The Smiling Woman’ 127, 258, 330, 331, 332, 463, 600
‘Study of an Undine’ 214
‘Symphonie Espagnole’ 484
‘Woman Knitting’ 410
John, Caspar (AJ and Ida’s second son): ‘a roaring boy’ 123, 126; toothless at ten months 142; ‘spoilt’ 163; and new baby 167; in France 192, 193, 194, 195; an acrobat 196, 197; at Ste-Honorine 216; at school 226; with Nettleships in London 238; Mrs Nettleship takes to Equihen 247; carried in sack through Brittany 256; returns to AJ and Dorelia 273–4; relationship with AJ 535–6; at Villa Ste-Anne 318–19; and cows and horses at Alderney 367; school at Dane Court 385, 386–7, and Osborne 536; makes navy his career 387–8, 540; on Mallord Street parties 421–2; with AJ at ‘Galway races & attendant activities’ 509–10; rejects Brigit Macnamara 529; marries 540; reads lesson at AJ’s memorial service 600; helps author with research xvii, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxxi; mentioned 191, 315, 390, 554
Augustus John to 7, 255, 504, 558, 570, 579, 594
Ethel Nettleship to 274
John, Clara (AJ’s aunt) 8, 11–12
John, David (AJ’s and Ida’s first son): birth and choice of name 112–13; and Ida 113–14, 116, 117; AJ’s reactions to 114; ‘difficile’ 141–2; ‘much entertained’ by new baby 167; relationship with AJ 195, 535; cuts his and Caspar’s hair 196; boisterous in father’s absence 196, 197; ‘very silly’ at Ste-Honorine 216; at school 226, 231; with Nettleships in London 238; with AJ in Equihen 247; back in London 252; returns to AJ and Dorelia 273–4; at Villa Ste-Anne 318–19; under Mrs Nettleship’s sway 356; at Alderney 370; and school life 385, 386–7, 536, 538; careers xx, 538; Henry envies 541; marriage 460, 537, 594; at AJ’s deathbed 599; author visits xx; mentioned 126, 191, 315, 539
John, Edwin (AJ’s and Ida’s fourth son): Ida tries to ‘dislodge’ 191; ‘another beastly boy’ 193, 194, 195, 197; ‘very ugly’ 216; remains with AJ and Dorelia after Ida’s death 238, 241; catches ophthalmia 252; AJ feels he is too much for Dorelia 271; remains with AJ and Dorelia permanently 273, 274; relationship with AJ 535; education 536; accidentally falls into boxing 539–40, 570; takes up painting 571; as Gwen John’s heir and executor 570, 571, 572; distressing relationship with AJ 571–3; helps Mary Taubman with her researches xx–xxi, xxii; presents National Museum of Wales with Gwen John’s work xxv; death xxvii; mentioned 315, 500
Augustus John to xxx, 477, 557, 559, 574
Dorelia McNeill to 476–7
John, Edwin William (AJ’s father): birth 8; education 8; becomes solicitor 9; marriage 10; and life in Haverfordwest 3–4; in Tenby for AJ’s birth 3; walks with children 4–5; formidable respectability 6, 7; moves to Tenby 11–12; regime and relationship with children 12–13, 14, 24; as one of Tenby’s most bizarre characters 18; canes AJ 19–20; ambitions and matrimonial skirmishes 23–4, 357; relationship with AJ 21, 23, 25–6, 347, and with Gwen 25, 28, 160; consents to AJ going to the Slade 30–1; AJ distances himself from 44; moves house 55; opposes Gwen’s plan to go to France 70; visits Gwen in France 73; turns up at Matching Green 162–3; disapproves of AJ’s clothes 212–13; model of patience 380–1; AJ convalesces with 443; outraged at Edwin taking up boxing 540; and AJ’s election to RA 475–6; miraculous recoveries 550; death 554; mentioned 42, 105, 126, 224, 404, 494, 553
John, Elizabeth Ann (Poppet) (AJ’s and Dorelia’s first daughter) see Pol, Poppet
John, Emma (AJ’s aunt) 11
John, Frederick (AJ’s uncle) 11
John, Gwen (AJ’s sister): childhood 12, 13, 14; arguments with AJ 15; education 18–19; attitude to father 23, 24, 25; self neglect worries AJ 25; and solitude as way of life 25, 27, 48, 134, 331; invites ‘models’ home 28; suffers because of AJ 28–9, 161; giggles with Winifred 40; appearance and personality 46; joins AJ in London 47–8; dramatic involvements 48–9; AJ’s admiration for 49; joins Ida and Gwen Salmond in Paris 70–1; smuggled into Académie Carmen 71–2; learns from Whistler 72; shows ‘sense of tone’ 72; cannot accept money from father 73; painting and posing 73–4; listless at Swanage 74; relationship with McEvoy 87, 88, 115, 116; at AJ’s wedding 89; and NEAC exhibitions 93, 94–5, 137–8; difficulties in relationship with AJ 95; at ease with Ida 115; friendship with Dorelia 127, 128; walk to ‘Rome’ 134–7; cats and kittens 138, 141, 142, 217, 225; in Toulouse 142, 146; in Paris 147–8, 149, 150; ‘attracted to the wrong people’ 149; and Dorelia’s affair with Leonard 151–9, 160; relationship with Rodin 159–62, 196, 217, 223, 436–7; visits Matching Green 163; dislikes Rothensteins 172; sees John ménage in Paris 196, 202; joins them at Ste-Honorine for sake of cat 217, 218; looks for new studio in Paris 222–3; with Johns at Christmas 224; Ida praises as ‘1st rate’ 225; and Ida’s death 235; AJ praises her paintings 258, 342–3; and outbreak of war 401, 403–4, 426; moves to Meudon 437, 438; AJ visits 436–7; agitated by AJ’s concern 438; visits Symonses 550–1; exhibits at Knewstub’s gallery 480, 552; her paintings at Fryern 499; and Yew Tree Cottage 551, 552, 553, 555–6; emotional affinity with AJ 551–2; comes to Fryern 552–3; gives up painting 553; death 556; AJ studies her papers 557; Edwin as her executor 570–1, 572; AJ proposes publishing memoir 572, 573; Mary Taubman’s researches xx-xxi; established as Welsh artist by National Museum of Wales xxv; centenary exhibition xxv; archive at National Library of Wales xxvii; mentioned xxx, 41, 42, 69, 70, 77, 81, 82, 85, 341
‘La Chambre sur la Cour’ 258
‘Chloë Boughton-Leigh’ 258
‘Dorelia by Lamplight at Toulouse’ 601
‘L’Étudiante’ 138
‘Self-Portrait in a Red Blouse’ 49
Tom Burns to 543
Jeanne Foster to 492
Augustus John to 95, 139, 142, 144, 146, 148, 150, 160, 162–3, 298, 390, 404, 416, 437–8, 474, 475, 496, 541, 554–5
Ida John to 124, 134, 136, 142, 144, 147, 151–2, 163, 164, 167
Thornton John to 405
Dorelia McNeill to 154
William Rolhenstein to 172
Arthur Symons to 294
John, Henry Edwin (AJ’s and Ida’s fifth son): birth 229, 230; cries all night 231–2; in France with AJ and Dorelia 238, 241; brought up by Nettleships 273, 274, 275, 325, 540; at school 540, 541; dream holidays with Johns 540–1; has ‘a shot at being a Jesuit’ 541–5; cannot look ‘directly at any female’ 545–6; seeks ‘big fresh start’ with Olivia Plunket-Greene 546; vanishes in Cornwall 547; AJ’s reaction to his death 547–8; mentioned xxx
Edwin John to 570
John, Ida (née Nettleship) (AJ’s wife): kissed by Browning 61; at Slade 50, 61; and Jungle Book characters 61–2; engaged to Clement Salaman 62–3; in Florence 63–4; becomes involved with AJ 64–5, 66, 67, 69; paints in Paris 70, 71, 72, 73–4; depicted in Orpen’s ‘Hamlet’ 51, 77–8; strained relationship with AJ 82; together again 88–9; marriage 89–90; gets measles and returns to Wigmore St 96; with AJ in Liverpool 97, 98; becomes friends with Mary Dowdall (‘Rani’) 98, 99; first pregnancy 105–6, 110; AJ paints 108; has nightmares 111, 112; and birth of their son 112, 113–14; in need of sympathetic companionship 115; Gwen John at ease with 115; returns with AJ to London 116; physical and character changes since marriage 117; and father’s death 117–18; second pregnancy 118–19; and Caspar’s birth 123; provoked by Esther Cerutti 125; first mention of Dorelia 127; ménage-a-trois 129–30; tries to deflect Alice Rothenstein 131–2; confides in the Rani 132–3; house hunting 134; envious of Gwen’s escapade with Dorelia 136; and move to Matching Green 138; wish to ‘create something’ 140; reprimanded by Alice Rothenstein 140–1; and life at Elm House 141–4; and Dorelia’s absence in France 144, 146, 147, 149; beats baby to sleep 149; pregnant again 151; longs for Dorelia’s return 151, 152, 157–8; loses power of sitting 152; welcomes AJ and Dorelia 162, 163; and birth of third son 166–8; receives unwanted advice from Rothensteins 168–70; Dorelia’s pregnancy, jealousy and quarrels 174–82; and birth of Dorelia’s son 182, 183; a.happy summer on Dartmoor 183–5; with Dorelia at Matching Green 185–6; Paris scheme and reaction of family 186–91; disenchanted with babies 191; sails for France 192–3; and birth of fourth son 193–4; regains happiness 194–6; and move to rue Dareau 197; with mother at Menton 197–8; at Ste-Honorine 216, 217, 219–20; pregnant again 221; finds logement for Dorelia 223; gives Christmas party 224–5; dismayed at living with AJ again 227–8; and Lambs 248, 249; longs for girl 229; engages new nanny 229; asks Dorelia to return 229; Henry’s birth, and her illness and death 230–3; effect of death on AJ 233–4, 236–7, 259; Lamb and McEvoy at cremation 234; ashes 252; effect of death on Edna Clarke Hall 276; mentioned xxx, 69, 94, 104, 147, 210, 213
John, Joanna (AJ’s aunt) 11
John, Kathie (AJ’s daughter-in-law) 601, 602
John, Mary (née Davies) (AJ’s grandmother) 7, 8
John, Mary (‘Pumpy’) (née Vanderpump) (AJ’s daughter-in-law) 540
John, Poppet see Pol, Poppet
John, Pyramus (AJ’s and Dorelia’s first son): conception 174; birth 182–3; weakly 188; in France with family 192–3, 195, 197, 224; ‘Wordsworthian’ 216; at Equihen 241, 242, 251; with Dorelia in Paris 270; death and cremation 389–90; mentioned 274, 315, 358
John, Robin (AJ’s and Ida’s third son): birth 166, 174; ‘most beautiful’ 167; relationship with AJ 195; climbs and jumps a lot 197, 216; Mrs Nettleship carries off to London 238, takes to Equihen 247, carries back to London 252; remains with AJ and Dorelia 273, 274; ill with scarlet fever 305; his silences madden AJ 535; AJ’s portrait bought for Tate Gallery 426; has Hope-Johnstone as philosopher and guide 451; to school in France 536; studies in Granada 483; subsequent career 539; relationship with AJ 538, 539; author catches up with xx; mentioned 256
John, Romilly (AJ’s and Dorelia’s second son): birth not registered xvii, 215; with Dorelia in Paris 224; at Equihen 241, 251–2; eats lilies 263; with Dorelia in France 270, 315; at Alderney 366, 368–9, 541; describes AJ 533fn, 535–6; Hope-Johnstone as tutor 383, 384fn; schooling 385 and fn, 387, 536; on AJ’s Buick 447–8, 450; subsequent career and publication of The Seventh Child 538; sees AJ and Dorelia off to Spain 588–9; with Dorelia at Fryern xv, xvi–xvii, 601; and Dorelia’s death xxiii, 601–2; mentioned 220, 274; helps the author in research xxiii; and the John family papers xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxxi
John, Sara (AJ’s granddaughter) xx
John, Simon (AJ’s daughter-in-law) 460, 594–5, 598
John, Thornton (AJ’s brother): as boy 4, 14, 15; schooling 19, 20; and father 11, 12, 23, 24, 25; as adolescent 28, 59; a hobbledehoy 40; in Canada and Montana 14fn, 15fn, 25; Winifred’s relationship with 161; returns to England 404–5; in Newfoundland 438; on AJ’s receiving Freedom of Borough of Tenby 594; mentioned xxx, 23, 28, 126, 136, 381, 554, 570
John, Vivien (AJ’s and Dorelia’s daughter) see White, Vivien
John, William (grandfather) 11
John, William (AJ’s grandfather) 6, 7–8, 9, 11, 12
John, William (AJ’s great-grandfather) 7
John, Winifred (AJ’s sister) see Shute, Winifred
‘John Beauty Chorus’ 422–3, 610–12
Johnson, Samuel: on himself xi; on Savage xxxii
Johnstone, Alick 682 (n. 74)
Johnstone, Gwyneth 413, 414, 415, 581
Jones, Edwina Claudia (née Lewis) 534
Jones, Robert Ivor 534
Jones-Lloyd, Alice 24
Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, The 283, 452–3, 561, 566
Joyce, James xxv, 303; AJ’s drawings 511–12
Kandinsky, Vassily 330
Kaufman, François 491
Kee, Cynthia and Robert 581, 582
Kelly, Sir Gerald 469 and fn, 585–6
Kennedy, George 478
Kennerley, Mitchell 492; AJ to 479, 483, 486
Keynes, Geoffrey 101
Keynes, John Maynard 248–9, 286
Kipling, Rudyard: Jungle Books 61
Kirk, Eve 500
Knapp, E. X.: clerihew on AJ and Orpen 52fn
Knewstub, Alice see Rothenstein, Alice
Knewstub, Grace see Orpen, Grace
Knewstub, Jack (‘Curly’): artist manqué 138; AJ shines like a star for 138–9; as secretary of the Chelsea Art School 139; opens Chenil Gallery 200; leases AJ a studio 222; muddled business methods 239; ‘improving’ 356; baffled by Mrs Strindberg’s cheques 375; shot at by Orpen 394; dreams for the New Chenil Gallery 477–8; bankruptcy and abandonment by AJ 479; friendship with AJ ceases 480; retires to Hastings 480–1; mentioned 397
Augustus John to 478
Knight (musician) 63
Knight, Harold 400
Kramer, Jacob 343
Krohn, Pietro Köbke 386
Kropotkin, Peter 38: Memoirs of a Revolutionist 101
La Maracona (flamenco artist) 281
Lamb, Euphemia (née Nina Forrest): artist’s model and ‘great romancer’ 205; marries Henry Lamb 205; models for AJ 248; eccentricities and sexual life 248–9; arrives in Equihen 250; ‘an irresistible boy’ 250; further adventures 250; Lamb grateful for experience 250–1; affair with J. D. Innes 352, 353, 354; executes fantastic belly dance 358; with AJ and Quinn 378; makes ‘effréné love’ to Strachey 398; affair with Francis Macnamara 412–13, 528; at the Crabtree Club 418; divorces Lamb 503; mentioned 258, 262, 357, 359, 521
Lamb, Henry: arrives at Chelsea Art School 205; greatly influenced by AJ 205–6; at Ida’s cremation 234; follows AJ to Paris 248; draws closer to Dorelia 248, 249; suggests ‘discreet form of colony’ 248; finds Euphemia unique experience 249, 250–1; affair with Dorelia 251, 255, 256, 270; replaces AJ with Ottoline Morrell’s 268–9; criticizes AJ for endangering Dorelia 314; Helen Maitland in love with 316; suggests ménage-à-six 320; with Helen at Dorelia’s bedside 325; criticisms of his work 330, 345; on AJ 356; with Dorelia in Paris 358, and Peppard 359; in despair at her move to Alderney 360; takes her sister to France 360–1; as Dorelia’s useful card 372; duets with Dorelia 372, 381; serves as army doctor in France 416–17; Dorelia nurses back to health 451, 502; sets up house in Poole 502; tries to escape with Dorelia 502–3; hopes extinguished by move to Fryern 503; divorce and remarriage 503; sceptical at AJ’s threatened breakdown 505; case ‘more serious’ than AJ’s 507; misinterprets Gwen John 553; mentioned xxxii, 203, 233, 239, 257, 265, 357, 407, 436, 504
Augustus John to 206, 242, 247, 252, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 274, 277, 565
Lamb, Nina see Lamb, Euphemia
Lamb, Lady Pansy (née Pakenham) 503
Lamb, Walter 248
Lambert, Constance: Pomona 519
Lamorna Cove, Cornwall 400
Lancaster, Osbert 600
Lane, Sir Hugh: commissions AJ to decorate Lindsay House 294, 304–5, 319; frightened out of wits by gypsies 305; AJ continues pictures at Chenil Gallery 356, 396–7; admires AJ’s Meyer portrait 655 (n. 108); drowned in the Lusitania 397; mentioned 145, 326, 339, 394–5
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop 204
Langdale, Cecily: Gwen John xxvi
Larkin, Philip: on the value of manuscripts xxix
La Thanghe, H. H. 92
Laugharne, Wales 531–2
Lawrence, D. H. 262, 429, 431, 445
Lawrence, T. E.: friendship with AJ begins 440, 454; sees Casati as ‘vampire’ 455; suggests AJ paint Hardy 464; on AJ 402, 462, 508; tactful about AJ’s Tallulah Bankhead portrait 470; and AJ’s non-election to RA 476; mentioned xxv, 465, 495, 566, 589
Augustus John to 468, 509, 511
Leach, Bernard 600; on Henry Lamb 205, 206
Leach, John 24
Le Bas, Edward 521
Lee, Cliff 600
Lees, Derwent 343, 353, 355, 394, 395
Legge, Daisy 83
Legros, Alphonse 34, 35, 49, 93
Lehmann, John 570
Leicester Galleries 332, 557, 558
Leighton, Sir Frederic 93
‘Leonard’, Dorelia’s affair with xx-xxxxi, 149–59, 160, 224
Le Puy-en-Velay, France 85–6, 87–8, 115
Les Baux, France 308–9
Leslie, Seymour 460; Eve Fleming to 461
Le Ventoux, Provence 308
Leverhulme, Sir William Lever, 1st Viscount: the beheading of his portrait 467–9, 469fn
Leverhulme Art Gallery, Port Sunlight 469
Levy, Mervyn 532
Lewis, Percy Wyndham: descriptions of AJ 44, 45–6, 57; spreads rumours about AJ 114, 115; long and precarious friendship with AJ 119, 121–3, 145, 518; cannot paint near AJ 202; in Paris with AJ 198, 202; ‘matrimonial projects’ 202–3; a ‘won-derful’ man 210; with AJ at Ste-Honorine-des-Perthes 215, 217, 218; AJ’s portrait 208, 218; on AJ 220; at rue Dareau 224, 229; on effect of Ida’s death on AJ 234; conferred with title Rai 284fn; to AJ on being volcanic 304, 305; and Fry 329; pursued by Mrs Strindberg 375; Dorelia slams ‘inner door’ in his face 381; draws Hope-Johnstone 383fn; on Shaw’s beard 411; as leader of Vorticists 417, 426, 427; with AJ in wartime France 432–3, 454; T. S. Eliot portrait rejected by the RA 476–7; criticisms of AJ’s work xxxii, 516–17, 533, 557, 568, 569; continues jousting with AJ 590–1; blindness and death 591; mentioned xxv, 136, 171, 239, 270, 319, 342, 359, 407, 545, 572
The Demon of Progress in the Arts 516–17
Tarr 202
Augustus John to 60, 199, 273, 274, 282–3, 324–5, 351, 574
Lewis, Rosa 418
Lhote, André 139
Liebermann, Max 485
Lieven, France 432
Lipczinski, Albert 361
Little, Brown and Company: Jonathan Cape to 567
Liverpool: AJ’s arrival and first impressions 96–7; life at St James’s Road (No.4) 98, 105–6; Cabbage Hall 104, 111–12, 280; University staff 98, 99–100, 106, 114, see also Sampson, John; friendship with Harold and Mary Dowdall (qq.v.) 98–9; Canning Street (No.66) 106; Chatham Street (No.138) 113; hostility to AJ’s work 110; AJ and Ida’s departure 116; AJ’s prospective school 183, 185; Walker Art Gallery 96, 110, 288, 292, 293
Liverpool Courier 291–2
Liverpool Daily Post 291
Llewellyn, Sir William 477; AJ’s resignation letter to 477
Lloyd George, David: Edwin John knows his father 8; a ‘rotten sitter’ 408; AJ’s portrait 408, 409, 428; invites AJ to attend Paris Peace Conference 439; ‘bursting with satisfaction’ 441; invites AJ to Deauville 442
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen xxxi
Gwen John Papers at the National Museum of Wales XXX
Llwynythyl (bungalow), Wales 395, 397, 400
Locarno Pact, the 486
Loftus, Cissy 37
‘London Impressionists’ 92, 94
London Magazine 570
Longford, Christine, Countess of 405, 510
Longford, 6th Earl of 503, 510
Lorenzetti, Pietro 312
Lusitania, sinking of 397
Lutyens, Edward: AJ’s portrait 426
McAlmon, Robert 545
MacCarthy, Desmond 568
MacColl, D. S.: becomes Art Critic of the Spectator 93; revives antagonism between NEAC and RA 93; praises AJ’s first one-man show 75; recommends AJ to Liverpool University Art College 96, and to paint Jane Harrison’s portrait 285; mentioned 92, 94, 335
Jane Harrison to 285
Augustus John to 528, 532, 558, 564, 565, 585
Charles Morgan to 45
MacDonald, James Ramsay: AJ tries to paint 409
McElroy, William (coal merchant) 518
McEvoy, Ambrose: friendship with AJ 37, 38; on expeditions with AJ and Evans 40, 41; teaches Gwen John Old Master techniques 50; to Amsterdam with AJ and Evans; 55, 67; shares Charlotte St studio with AJ 68; frequents Café Royal 70; with AJ and Gwen at Le Puy 87; crisis in relationship with Gwen 88; aids and abets at AJ’s wedding 89; becomes engaged 115; awkwardness with Gwen 115; moves to Shrivenham 135; exhibits at Chenil Gallery 200; with AJ and Epstein 205; drunk in Paris 234; Rothenstein recommends to Fry 350; sprouts moustache 358–9; succumbs to fashionable portraiture 407, 428; mentioned 49, 54, 119, 147, 160, 203, 239, 426
McEvoy, Charles 134, 257, 271, 357, 359, 551
McEvoy, Mary (née Edwards) 115, 135, 200
McEwen, Brigid 601
Macfie, Robert Andrew Scott: charming and talented man 283–4; becomes secretary of Gypsy Lore Society 284; gratified by demoralizing effects of AJ’s researches 310; encouragement of AJ 566, 595; reviews Sampson’s Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales 452–3; ill but indefatigable at scattering of Sampson’s ashes 549; mentioned xxvi, 282, 291, 561
Augustus John to 281, 284fn, 308, 313, 319, 320
Machin, Arthur 530
Mackay, John MacDonald 98, 111, 225; AJ portrait 115, 137
Mackenzie, Compton 383fn, 458, 485
My Life and Times 383fn
Mackenzie, Irene 17, 19, 41, 42
McLanahan, Frances: AJ portrait 493
Maclaren-Ross, Julian 569
Macmillan, Harold: W. B. Yeats to 245
MacNair, Frances 99
MacNair, Herbert 99–100
Macnamara, Brigit: joins Alderney gang 412, 413; with AJ and Dorelia in Jamaica 513, 514; trusted by everyone 528; intermittent love affair with AJ 529; AJ’s portrait 528–9; marriage to Caspar John ‘indefinitely postponed’ 529
Macnamara, Caitlin see Thomas, Caitlin
Macnamara, Edie (née McNeill): appearance 366–7; with AJ and Dorelia in nomadic life 284, 286, 294; her part in their plans 307; Lamb carries off to France 361; at Alderney 366, 367, 385, 413; marries Francis Macnamara 528; fades away 590; mentioned 305, 357
Macnamara, Francis: ‘poet, philosopher and financial; expert’ 392; introduces AJ to Ireland 392–3; children 412, 528; mistresses 412–13, 528; survives war 451; hated by Caitlin 529, 531; Romilly joins on Stour 538; mentioned 369, 510, 590
Macnamara, John 412
Macnamara, Nicolette see Devas, Nicolette
Macnamara, Yvonne 413, 528, 529
McNaught, Elsie 612
McNeill, Dorelia: birth and early life 127–8; as AJ’s creation 127; first meeting with AJ 128; her presence 129; and Ida’s acceptance of ménage-à-trois 129–30; poses for AJ 130–1; learns Romany 131; sets off for Rome with Gwen John 135–7; in Toulouse 137, 147; Gwen’s portraits 147; in Paris 148, 149; affair with Leonard 149–59; returns to England with AJ 159; in London and Matching Green 162, 163, 164; helps Ida with new baby 167; as source of scandal to Rothensteins 168–9, 170; Will Rothenstein rhapsodizes over 172–3; pregnancy and effect on ménage 174–82; and birth of son 182–4; closeness with Ida 185–6; and Ida’s Paris scheme and the Nettleship opposition 186–91, 192; and Paris ménage 192–3, 194, 196–7; moves into rue Dareau with Ida 198–9, 210; pregnant 199; at Ste-Honorine 216; and AJ’s affair with Alick Schepeler 219–20; moves out 221, 223–5, 228; walks back into web 229; pregnant again 230; helps with Henry 231; and Ada Nettleship’s battle over the children 238; summoned to Equihen 241; miscarriage 242, 247; affair with Henry Lamb 248, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256; disliked by Ada Nettleship 251; the children removed from her care 251–2; defended by AJ 253–4; firm with AJ over his affairs 258; no objections to Ottoline Morrell 260, 267–8, 269; and battle over the children 270–4; with six boys in Cherbourg 274; and Edna Clarke Hall at Diélette 276, 277; in Chelsea with AJ 277; shares ‘Nomadic life’ 284, 286, 287, 294; illness and quarrels with AJ 305–6; her pregnancy mystifies AJ 306–7; joins AJ in Provence 307; arrives in Provence with Helen Maitland 315–16; at Villa Ste-Anne with AJ 317–18; meets Ottoline in Aix 320; dangerously ill after still birth 325, 326; vulnerability to the trivial 358; leaves with Lamb 358, 359; ready to take Alderney unseen 359–60; pregnant once more 361; Alderney her creation 365–6, 367–8; influential style in clothes 368–9; reaction to AJ’s romances 372–4; duets with Lamb 372, 381; unwelcoming to Wyndham Lewis 381; does not believe in education 384; appearance at Dane Court 386, 387; organizes Caspar’s entry into navy 388; Poppet’s birth and Pyramus’s death 389–90; joins AJ in Marseilles 396; new strains in relationship 399–400; makes rare appearance in London 401; sends money and clothes to Gwen John 404; Vivien’s birth 412; and AJ’s Brownsword affair 414, 415; and Lamb’s departure to war 416–17; immerses herself in her garden 417; Carrington describes 422; inspects AJ’s new secretary 446; learns to drive 447, 449; nurses Lamb back to health 451, 502; their subsequent relationship 502–3; hates Eve Fleming 458; and Chiquita’s pregnancy 459; saves AJ’s pictures 465; at Fryern Court 498, 499, 500; described by her children 388, 535; tries to leave 503; interests narrow 503–4; and AJ’s drinking 507, 508, 509; goes with AJ to Amsterdam 511, and Jamaica 513, 514; rents Mas de Galeron 521; dislikes Mavis Cole 525; wants to bring up Tristan 526, 527; on AJ’s resignation from RA 476–7; their departure from France 522; and Gwen John’s cottage 551, 555–6; refuses to marry AJ 564; ‘illiterate, dumb and ill-natured’ 582, 583; breaks her arm 588; in Spain with AJ 588–9; with AJ at his death 599; helps author with Strachey research xiii; author interviews xiv, xvi-xvii, xxiii; gets the family to collaborate xx; death xxiii, 601–2; mentioned 133, 255, 259, 314, 395, 440, 443, 450, 480, 487, 491, 529, 550, 561, 580, 601
Augustus John to 128–9, 130–1, 134, 135, 144, 146–8, 150, 183, 158, 199, 200, 201, 203, 241, 257, 258, 271, 274, 275, 288, 300, 304–14; passim, 354, 356, 358–9, 372, 378, 380, 385, 391–9 passim, 401, 405–6, 411, 414, 416, 432, 434, 436, 437, 439, 441, 466, 481, 483–94; passim, 512–13, 528, 531fn, 536, 550
Gwen John to 152–3, 154–5, 156–7, 159, 162, 174, 182–3
Ida John to 143, 144, 146, 149, 157–8, 177–8, 179, 180, 181, 185
McNeill, Edie see Macnamara, Edie
McNeill, Jessie see Slade, Jessie
McNeill, Kate Florence (née Neal) 128, 381
McNeill, William George 127–8
Madrid, Spain 484
Maeterlinck, Madame 250
Mafeking Night, Trafalgar Square on 84–5
Magazine of Fine Arts 333
Maggie (‘Minger’) (cook) 126, 142, 143, 175, 183
Maiden Castle, Dorset 526
Mailer, Norman 575
Maitland, Helen see Fry, Helen
Maitland, Paul 345
Majorca 512
Mallord Street (No.28), Chelsea 397–400, 497; parties at 415, 421–2, 430, 444, 446–7
Mallowan, Max 527fn
Manchester Guardian 205, 335, 412, 469, 479
Mancini, Antonio: portrait of Yeats 245
Manet, Édouard 34, 92, 342, 344
‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ (exhibition) 326, 327–9, 330, 331, 334, 335, 336, 340, 341–2
Mann, Harrington 490
Manresa Road, Chelsea 162, 181fn, 222
Mansfield, Katherine 431
Margaret, Princess 473
Maria Katerina: AJ in love with 83–4, 87
Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso 343, 426, 455;
Dance Manifesto 455
Mark, Stacy 91
Marseilles, France: teeming with gypsies (1910) 309–11; ‘beats Liverpool’ 313–14; AJ’s exploits among ‘inveterate whores’ 319–20; AJ takes studio 326; AJ with Innes and Dorelia (1913) 395–6
Marsh, Eddie 282
Marten, Mary Anna 593
Martigues, Provence 316–17, 337, 481–2, 483; Villa Ste-Anne 317–20, 325–6, 335, 397, 482, 497; author visits xix
Martindale, Father Cyril 541, 544
Martini, Alberto 455
Martini, Simone 307
Massey, Raymond 519
Massey, Vincent 514
Massey, William 441
Masterman, C. F. G.: Dodgson to 429–30
Matching Green, Essex: Elm House 138, 141–4, 145–6, 148–9, 162–3, 166–70, 175–6, 182, 183, 185, 186
Matisse, Henri: full of ‘worst art school tricks’ 329; Huneker on 334; AJ sees his work in Paris 336; AJ’s opinions on 342, 344; AJ’s work compared to 340, 515; mentioned 328, 352
‘The Dance’ 335
Matthews, Muriel (née Shute) 15fn, 632 (n. 8)
Matthiesen Gallery, London 571, 572
Maugham, Liza: Gerald Kelly to 586
Maugham, Syrie 514
Maugham, William Somerset: The Moon and Sixpence 674 (n. 1)
Maupassant, Guy de 145
May, Betty 418
Memling, Hans 105
Mendel, Sir Charles 539
Meninsky, Bernard 435
Menton, France 197–8
Meo, Innes: AJ to 435
Meudon, Paris: Shaw visits Rodin 49; Gwen John in 403–4, 437, 438; Mary Taubman meets Edwin John in xx-xxi; Musée Rodin xxvii
Meyer, Kuno 100; AJ’s portrait 115, 361
Meynell, Francis 299
Michel, Louise 38
Milan, Italy: a gypsy assembly 312–13
Millais, Sir John 92
Mix, Tom: AJ’s portrait 493
Modigliani, Amedeo: AJ sees in Paris 345, 396; his stone heads affect AJ deeply 396, 500; death 440
Moeran, E. J. 457
Monckton, Sir Walter: Lord Beaverbrook to 434
Monroe, Harriet: Ezra Pound to 402
Monsell, Elie 83
Montgomery, General Bernard: sits to AJ 559–60, 571
Montgomery, Vera see Stubbs, Vera
Moore, George: and NEAC exhibitions 93; skirmish with AJ 120; on Symons 295; on AJ as ‘wonder of Chelsea’ 332; mentioned 510
Moore, Gerald 464
Moorehead, Alan: attempts to write AJ’s biography xiii, 583–4
Morgan, Charles 45; AJ’s portrait 593
Morgan, Evan see Tredegar, Lord
Morrell, Lady Ottoline: first impresssions of AJ 260–1; their subsequent relationship 262–7; meets Dorelia 267–8; Lamb as a replacement for AJ 268–9; AJ’s children farmed out to 271, 278; buys and re-titles AJ’s ‘Girl on the Cliff’ 277; visits AJ and family in field at Grantchester 286–7; meets AJ and Dorelia at Aix 320–1; AJ paints while she is ‘safely out of sight’ 406; her portrait produces furore 261; recommends doctor to AJ 506; AJ finds her ‘more paintable than ever’ 507
Augustus John to 170, 171, 248, 259, 260, 270–1, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279–80, 284–5, 288–9, 294–5, 305, 308, 310, 311, 312, 315, 316–17, 326, 356, 357, 361, 383, 389, 390, 396, 402, 405, 406, 432, 442, 447, 462, 484, 505, 506, 507
Dorelia McNeill to 314, 319, 507
Katherine Mansfield to 431
Morrell, Philip 262, 266–7, 269, 507
Morris, Edward: Lord Leverhulme 468
Morris, Jan 407
Mousehole, Cornwall 561
Muggeridge, Malcolm: interview with AJ 592
Muirhead, David 200
Munnings, Alfred 400, 433, 477
Munthe, Axel 455
Murray, Gilbert 285; AJ’s portrait 593
Murray, Lt-Gen. Sir James 408
Muspratt, Edmund: AJ’s portrait 641 (n. 49)
Myers, John 283
Nant-ddu, North Wales: Innes and AJ’s cottage 354–5, 359, 361, 390, 395, 397, 400
‘Nant-ddu’ (Augustus John) 352
Nares, Owen 545
Nash, Paul 332, 407, 418, 435, 592
Nation 331
National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment 560
National Council for Civil Liberties 576
National Gallery, London: AJ spends time in 36; offers £650 for Dowdall portrait 293; as canteen and concert hall in war 563; ‘British Painting since Whistler’ exhibition 563–4; mentioned 466
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 293
National Library of Wales xxvi, xxvii, xxix
National Museum of Wales xxiv–xxv, xxx, 527
National Portrait Society 397
Netherlands, the 40, 55, 67–8, 511
Nettleship, Ada (née Hinton) (Ida’s mother): appearance 65; dressmaking trade 61, 65–6; objects to AJ 65, 66, 89; with Ida in Liverpool 105; and David’s birth 112; Ida abandons for Dorelia’s baby 183; objects to Paris scheme 189–9, 190; recuperates at Menton 197; with Ida in Paris 230, 231–2, 233; takes eldest children back to Wigmore Street 237–8; arrives at Equihen 247; ‘war to the knife’ with Dorelia 251, 252; removes children and Ida’s ashes to Wigmore Street 252–3; heated exchanges with AJ 272–4; children’s relationship with 356, 387; death 548; mentioned 136, 141, 186, 487
Augustus John to 236–7, 271, 275, 287, 386, 396, 453
Ida John to 63, 64, 71, 72, 73, 98, 105, 109–10, 229
Nettleship, Edward (‘Uncle Ned of Nutcombe Hill’) 253, 254–5
Nettleship, Ethel (Ida’s sister): laughs at Ida’s ‘spooning’ 62–3; on AJ 66; bravely stays at St James’s Road 105; on Ida 117; at Fitzroy Street 136; appeals to Ida 189; renounces marriage 190fn; stays with Ida 226; at Ida’s deathbed 233; on her mother 274; takes children to the seaside 387; mentioned 118, 141, 537, 546
Ida John to 63
Nettleship, Ida see John, Ida
Nettleship, Jack (John Trivett) (Ida’s father): member of ‘the Brotherhood’ 61; painter of melodramatic zoo animals 61; religious views 63; dismayed at the sight of AJ 66; his cocoa drinking 66; philosophical about AJ’s marriage to his daughter 89; NEAC rejects his work 94; final illness and death 117–18
Ida John to 112
Nettleship, Ursula (Ida’s sister): disappointed in Ida’s wedding 105; at Fitzroy St 136; campaigns against Ida’s immorality 189, 190; renounces marriage 190; with Mrs Nettleship and Ida in Menton 197; looks after the boys 252; takes children to seaside 387; on AJ at her mother’s deathbed 548; mentioned 118 141
Augustus John to 253–4
Caspar John to 318
Ida John to 112, 189, 190–1, 216
Ada Nettleship to 230, 231–2, 237–8, 251, 252
Edward Nettleship to 254–5
Ethel Nettleship to 233
Nevinson, C. R. W 333, 336, 343, 357, 407, 435
New Age 94, 319, 404, 454, 566
New Chenil Gallery 477–80, 552
New English Art Club (NEAC), London: foundation of 91; original members 91–2; control passes to ‘the London Impressionists’ 92–3; AJ exhibits at 51, 81, 93–4, 95, 107, 124–5, 240; Gwen John thankful to be free of 94–5; AJ persuades her to exhibit (1908) 258; as British fortress against French Post- Impressionism 347; AJ loyal then defects 348; AJ exhibits again (1911): fades 476; mentioned 39, 304, 397
Exhibitions (see also Appendix Two, pp. 606–6): 1902 124–5; 1903 137–8; 1904 94, 173; 1907 157; 1908 258; 1909 138, 277, 282, 300; 1910 334; 1911 191, 349, 396; 1912 335, 396; 1913 396; 1915 412; 1916 407; 1925 95
New Gallery: ‘Exhibition of Fair Women’ 258
‘Newlyn Group’ 91–2
News of the World 439
New Statesman 514
New York, USA: AJ’s six visits to 488, 489–90, 492–3; is bewitched by Harlem 490–1, 492
New York Times 489
Nice, France: AJ’s visit to Frank Harris 321, 322–5
Nichols, David 38
Nicholson, Ben 560
Nicholson, William: visitor to the Rothensteins’ 121; exhibits at Chenil Gallery 200; presents AJ with huge canvas 258; AJ and Max Beerbohm dine with 332; AJ’s portrait 208, 278–9, 331, 332, 333, 464, 488; mentioned 407
Nicolson, Harold 569
Norman, Montagu: AJ’s portrait 465–6
Normandy: Bayeux 216, 274, 496; Cherbourg 274, 281, 496; Deauville 442; Port-en-Bessin 215, 217; Ste-Honorine 215–20; Vattetot-sur-Mer 75–7
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, France: monastery 86–7
Novello, Ivor 545
Nuts (newspaper) 37
Obachs, New Bond Street 173
Observer 335, 430, 435, 443, 569
O’Casey, Breon 579–80 (689 n. 98)
O’Casey, Eileen (née Reynolds) 518, 519
O’Casey, Sean xxv, 476, 518; AJ to 476, 565
O’Connor, John 489
Olivier, Noël 286
Olympic, SS 488
Orage, A. R.: New Age 404, 427, 453~4, 566
Orchardson, Sir William 91
O’Rourke, Mollie: AJ to 537
Orpen, Grace (née Knewstub) 75, 77
Orpen, William: appearance 51, 52; modesty 51; relationship with AJ 51–2; at Mrs Everett’s ‘bun-worries’ 53; shares Charlotte St studio 68; as one of Café Royal ‘three musketeers’ 70; in campaign against St Paul’s Cathedral mosaics 74; exhibits at Carfax Gallery 75; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 75, 76, 77; portrait of AJ 44, 75, 279; Ida poses for 77–8; blames AJ for illness 78; tells Everett of AJ’s scandalous escapades 79; suffers from lack of sleep 80–1; with AJ in Albany Street 85; on AJ 88, 89, 90; exhibits at NEAC 94; on Wyndham Lewis spreading gossip 114; and Chelsea Art School 138, 139, 144, 199; finances Chenil Gallery 200; grows attached to gorilla 201; joins Royal Academy 347; shoots hole through one of his pictures 394; as war artist 431, 433; invited to paint Paris Peace Conference (1919) 439; mentioned 581
‘The Café Royal’ 120
‘The Play Scene in Hamlet’ 51, 75, 77
Orvieto, Italy 312
Orwell, George 576
Osborn, W. E. 345
O’Sullivan, Miss (art teacher) 29
Padua, Italy 312
Paget-Fredericks, Baron 456
Pall Mall Gazette 331
Paradou, Provence 308
Paris: Ida, Gwen Salmond and Gwen John study in 70–4; AJ joins them 72–3, 78–9, 150–1; Ida’s ménage-a-trois 186, 193–9; AJ’s meetings with Wyndham-Lewis 202; atmosphere favourable to an artist 206–7; literary world 207–8; Caveau des Innocents 208; Gwen John depressed by ‘horrible rooms’ 222–3; AJ’s studio 223; Dorelia’s logement on rue du Château 223–4, 225; Christmas 1906 224–5; crowded with bourgeoisie 229; AJ cannot find primitive inspiration 241; AJ remains with Dorelia (1908) 270–1; world’s greatest stock-exchange for art 345–6; ‘preferable to Chelsea’ (1910) 357; special entertainment at the Hotel Bristol (1917) 433; under bombardment (1918) 437
Paris Peace Conference: AJ invited as artist to 439–41, 454
Park Studio, Kensington 521
Partridge, Ralph 535
Patmore, Coventry 322
Paulton Square (No. 55), London 222
Pearson, Hesketh: Beerbohm Tree to 119
Extraordinary People 323
Pearson, John: The Life of Ian Fleming 458
Penrose, Beacus 526
Peppard, nr Henley-on-Thames 269, 271, 359
Perugia, Italy 312
Perugino 312
Pevril Tower, Swanage 74, 82–4, 90
Phelps, Elspeth 89
Phillips, Doris: AJ to 596
Phillips, Sir Lawrence 514
Phillips, Mrs Lionel 304
Picasso, Pablo: meeting with AJ 257, 336; AJ’s; opinion of work 257, 342, 344; mentioned 328, 335, 588
Pier Hotel, Battersea Bridge 562
Piero della Francesca 312, 512
Piggott, Stuart: AJ to 540
Pisanello, Antonio 512
Pissarro, Camille 344
Pissarro, Lucien 173–4, 300, 348
Pitman, Hugo 420, 470–1, 500, 586; AJ to 587
Pitman, Reine 495
Pittsburgh, USA: Carnegie International Exhibition (1910) 333, 488
Playter, Phyllis: John Cowper Powys to 593
Pléneuf, France 437–8
Plunket-Greene, Olivia 546–7
Pol, Poppet (née John): birth 389; nicknamed ‘Poppet’ 390; childhood 369, 405, 413, 450; lack of education 412, 536; relationship with Dorelia 388; relationship with AJ 447, 474, 482, 535, 536–7; AJ’s portrait of her 445; ‘a great flirt’ 541; life at Villa Ste-Anne 482; with AJ in Italy 486–7; and move to Fryern 498, 500; warns AJ of ‘man called Hitler’ 522; marriages 537; war work 563; loses temper with AJ 582; talks with author xx; mentioned 458, 522, 581, 601
Augustus John to 489–90, 511, 599
Pol, Willelm 683 (n. 119)
Pooley, Michaela 385–6
Portal, Lord 558–9
Port-en-Bessin, Normandy 215, 217
Porteus, Hugh Gordon 575
Post-Impressionism: campaign against 39–40; AJ diverges from 240–1; AJ’s reactions to 341–2, 344, 345; see also ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ and ‘Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition’
Postbridge, Dartmoor 182, 183–5
Pound, Reginald: AJ to 26
Powell, Anthony xix, 502, 566, 579, 600
Powys brothers 538
Powys, John Cowper xxv–xxvi; sits to AJ 593–4
Pre-Raphaelitism 54, 55, 91, 138, 330
Prescelly Mountains, Wales 5, 27
Preston Deanery Hall, Northampton: AJ’s ‘rest cure’ 506, 507–8, 511
Prothero, Lady M. F. 237
Provence xix, 312, 337, 347, 524; Aix 320–1, 589; Arles 308, 309, 315; Avignon 307; Les Baux 308–9; Martigues 316–20, 325–6, 335, 337, 397, 481–3, 497; St-Rémy 521–2, 574
Prydderch, Mr (‘buttocks strangely protuberant’) 18
Pryde, James 121, 200, 260, 479
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre 79, 207, 229, 236, 257, 319, 329, 337, 342, 353
Quaritch (Bernard) Ltd xxvi
Queen’s Restaurant, Sloane Square 504, 518, 581, 591–2
Quennell, Peter 591
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur 507
Quinn, John: ‘twentieth century’s most important patron of living literature and art’ 299; character traits 300, 301–2; relationship with AJ 300–1, 303–4; and Agnes Tobin 302; brings AJ, Symons and Miss Tobin together 299; AJ’s portrait and his response xviii, 299–300; warns AJ against venereal disease 302–3, 311; medical lunacy 303; sends Christmas cake and money 307, 310, 326; alarmed at AJ and Bazin 317–18; on doubling ‘efficiency’ 318; sends AJ American notices 333; sends Huneker’s book 338; buys Gauguin ceiling 342; relies on AJ for information about contemporary British art (see also Augustus John to (below)) 342; badgers and bullies Gwen John 343; AJ buys him Camden Town Group pictures 348, 349; and AJ’s involvement with Mrs Strindberg 375, 377–8; with AJ in France 378–80; on AJ’s ‘pot-boilers’ 410; believes AJ to have masterminded Epstein hoax 424; fails to help Gwen John financially 438; last encounter with AJ 491–2; death 492; mentioned xviii, xxvii, 334, 551
Jacob Epstein to 423
Lady Gregory to 244
Augustus John to 290, 294, 298, 299, 301, 304, 306, 313, 314-I5, 325, 326, 333–4, 336, 337, 338, 341–2, 343, 353–61 passim, 383, 389, 392–408 passim, 413–14, 418, 424, 438–9, 450, 505
Arthur Symons to 295–6, 303, 430
Rhoda Symons to 292
W. B. Yeats to 1, 242, 243–4, 245–6, 334
Rainbird, George 585
Raleigh, Professor Walter 99, 100
‘Rani, the’ see Dowdall, Mary
Ransome, Arthur: Bohemia in London 282
Ravenna, Italy, AJ in 312
Read, Sir Herbert xxxii, 426, 564, 565, 576
Rebel Art Centre, London 427
Redon, Odilon 488
Reed, Trelawney Dayrell: drops in at Alderney 382; literary quarrels with AJ 385; goes to Tenerife with Innes 400; survives war 450; on AJ 533; AJ’s portrait 208, 450
Reid, B. L. xviii
The Man from New York… 300
Reilly, Sir Charles 183, 361, 637 (n. 71); AJ’s portrait 641 (n. 49)
Augustus John to 548
Reinhardt, Max 520
Reitlinger, Gerald 521
Réjane (actress) 408
Rembrandt van Rijn: influence on AJ 55, 67–8, 69, 73, 79, 108, 124, 145, 158
Renoir, Pierre Auguste 344
Renvyle House, Connemara 509, 510
Reveille 436
Reynolds, Sir Joshua 54
Richards, Ceri 171
Richards, Grant 653 (n. 58)
Richmond, Sir William: on John Singer Sargent 93; desecration of St Paul’s Cathedral 74–5, 603; finds Post-Impressionist shows ‘unmanly’ 328, and Fry ‘loathesome’ 329
Ricketts, Charles 107, 145, 328, 334, 342
Riddell, Sir George 439
Robert-Fleury, Tony 35
Roberts, Arthur 37
Roberts, William 342, 407, 427, 435
Roberts-Jones, Ivor: statue of Augustus John xv
Robeson, Paul 546
Robinson, Edward Arlington 58
Rodin, Auguste: as friend of Legros 34; bust of Shaw 49, 412; exhibition at Carfax 75; affair with Gwen John 159–62, 196, 217; asks Gwen to model nude again 223; drawings admired by AJ 236; Gwen John will not leave him 401; death 436–7; as link between Gwen John and the Symonses 550; mentioned xviii
‘Le Baiser’ 293
Rogers, Claude 517
Rosenberg, Harold 336–7
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 61, 138
Rossetti, William Michael 66
Rossetti Studios, Flood Street 139, 200
Rothenstein, Albert see Rutherston, Albert
Rothenstein, Alice (née Knewstub; stage name ‘Kingsley’): with the Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 75, 76, 77; reaction to AJ and Gwen’s occupation of their house 81; at Le Puy with AJ and Rothenstein 86, 87; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida 89; Hudson in love with 121; friendship with Ida 132, 140–1, 168–70, see also Ida John to (below); sits to AJ 170; disliked by Gwen John 172; horror at Paris scheme 188; mistakes Pyramus for Ida’s baby 197
Augustus John to 85–6, 87, 96, 97, 114, 236, 237, 246
Ida John to 105, 113, 114, 115, 117, 126, 127, 131–2, 141–2, 144, 146, 166, 175, 181, 185, 187–8, 193, 194–5, 216, 221, 228, 230
Lady Prothero to 237
William Rothenstein to 171–2, 195
Rothenstein, Sir John: on AJ’s reaction to Gwen John’s work 49; on AJ 581–2; on his work 125, 353; buys ‘Old Lady’ for Tate 637 (n. 74); on Orpen 52; on William Rothenstein 171; mentioned xxi
Augustus John 564
Augustus John to 27
Rothenstein, William: on Legros’s methods 34; Steer on his painting 39; and Orpen 51; on young AJ 27, 52, 54, 58; introduces AJ to Goya’s work 54–5; chooses artists for Carfax Gallery 75; with AJ at Vattetot-sur-Mer 75, 76, 77, and in Paris 78; offers house to AJ and Gwen 80–1; portrait of AJ 81; with AJ at Le Puy 86–7; helps AJ sell his work 88, 107; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida 89–90; entertains artists and writers at Church Row 121, 123; sends AJ on marathon walks 123–4; on Dorelia 129; and Ida John 132; on AJ’s restlessness 133; AJ’s portrait 137; lectures at Chelsea Art School 139; symptoms of burlesque in his friendship with the Johns 170–1; becomes disillusioned with AJ 171–2; welcomes Dorelia as inspiration 172–3; throws Society of Twelve into confusion 173–4; opposes AJ’s Paris scheme 188; shocked by AJ’s behaviour with his children 195; puts Dodgson in touch with AJ 200; writes AJ ‘Uriah Heep-like’ letters on Ida’s death 234; AJ recommends as Principal of Chelsea Art School 239; AJ’s financial interest in 240; on Arthur Symons 295; clash with Fry 329, 349–50, 351; on AJ in interwar years 462, 505; on Henry John 541; on AJ’s prose style 568; ‘pegs out’ 590; AJ pays tribute in the Tate Gallery Memorial Exhibition Catalogue 117, 174; mentioned xxv, xxxii, 68, 94, 119, 120, 201, 305, 321, 339
‘The Doll’s House’ 75
Charles Conder to 82
Jacob Epstein to 171
Augustus John to 22, 54, 55, 56, 81, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 97, 98, 100, 105, 106–7, 109, 110, 110, 114, 116, 118, 123, 133–4, 135, 138, 145, 164–5, 204, 208, 236, 238, 240, 241–2, 275, 277, 281, 300, 356, 428, 453, 479, 501, 563
Ida John to 118, 167, 170, 228
T. E. Lawrence to 402
Neville Lytton to 332
Ramsay MacDonald to 409
John Quinn to 303
Henry Tonks to 133
Rousseau, Henri (‘Le Douanier’) 345
Rowan, Eric 355
Rowse, A. L. 593
Royal Academy of Art, London: all-powerful 33; Poynter president of 34; Legros hostile to 34; and Slade 34, 39; NEAC in opposition to 39, 91–2, 93; ‘vast collection of wrong-minded stuff’ 95; academizing process 336–7; Orpen joins 347; Wadsworth and AJ drill in courtyard 402; AJ’s election (1921) 475–6; AJ’s work exhibited (1922–62) 613–14; Bankhead and Du Maurier portraits exhibited (1930) 470; AJ’s resignation (1938) 476–7, and re-election (1940) 477; Diploma Gallery exhibition (1954) 469fn, 585–8; AJ fails to finish triptych for (1960) 597; the Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition 592; mentioned 30, 599
Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours 478
‘The Three Graces’ 484
Ruskin, John 33
Russell, Bertrand 262, 576, 578, 579
Russell, Irene 612
Russell, Leonard 570
Russell, Vera 589
Russell, Walter 39
Rutherston (Rothenstein), Albert: rather a rake 52; shares Charlotte St studio with AJ 68; one of ‘three musketeers’ at Café Royal 70; with AJ and Orpen in St Paul’s campaign 74; in Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party 74–7; at AJ’s wedding party 89–90; delivers a kitchen table 96; on Liverpool life 112; on AJ’s ménage 133; on Gwen John 135; Gwen John’s contempt for 172; on AJ’s portrait of Fisher 407; mentioned 119, 201, 581
John Folhergill to 353
Paul Nash to 418
William Orpen to 114
William Rothenstein to 133, 172
Henry Tonks to 39–40
Rutherston, Charles: AJ to 162, 201
Rutter, Frank 240, 330–1, 347, 348
Ryan, Thomas Fortune 378
Saint-Bernard Restaurant 419
St Catherine’s School, Tenby 20–2, 29
Saint Gaudens, Homer 492
St George, Mrs Florence Evelyn (Orpen’s mistress) 51
Ste Honorine-sur-Mer, Normandy (1906) 215–20
St Paul’s Cathedral: Sir William Richmond’s desecration of 74–5, 603
St Rémy-de-Provence: Mas de Galeron 521–2, 574; author visits xix
Salaman, Bessie 62, 118; Ida Nettleship to 62, 63, 64
Salaman, Dorothy 61, 89; Ida Nettleship to 64, 65
Salaman, Michel: on AJ at Slade 32; shares AJ’s exile in Tenby 40–1; loans money to AJ 79; with AJ in France 85, 86–7; AJ paints portrait 86; shocked at AJ’s womanizing 87; lectures at Chelsea Art School 139; marries 144, 182; sells caravan to AJ 182, 279; writes to Gwen John 552; mentioned 54, 62, 79, 84, 89, 177, 201, 271, 358
Augustus John to 49, 56, 68, 75–6, 83, 85, 87, 88, 93–4, 97, 98, 115, 116, 118, 119, 125, 140, 166, 182, 184, 196, 199, 259, 396, 547
Gwen John to 74, 115, 116, 162
Ida John to 73–4, 82, 115, 134
Ambrose McEvoy to 88
Gwen Salmond to 72
Salmon, André 207
Salmond, Gwen (later Lady Smith): at Slade 50, 61; goes to Paris with Ida 70, 71; smuggles Gwen John into Académie Carmen 71–2; painting in Cold Veal Street 73–4; ‘lady superintendent’ at Chelsea Art School 139; arranges life-drawing classes for Edna Clarke Hall 140; liberates Matthew Smith 154; marriage fails 552; mentioned 89, 118, 163
Sampson, Anthony 451
Sampson, Honor 101, 289, 290, 451
Sampson, John: influence on AJ and their friendship 100–4, 201–2, 280; passion for lost languages 100, 101; secret love life 100–1, 103; admitted by gypsies as one of their own 101, 104; with AJ and Ida in Liverpool 106; in Wales with AJ 126; Dorelia writes to in Romany 131; AJ’s portrait 137; Ida finds him ‘2nd rate’ 225; importance to the Gypsy Lore Society 283, 284; rediscovers Matthew Wood 289; bloody combat in Wales 290–1; patriotic pride and parental anguish 451; publication of his dictionary 451–3; death and scattering of his ashes 548–9; ‘great work’ kept alive 561; mentioned xxvi, xxxii, 284, 36l, 395, 560
‘The Apotheosis of Augustus John’ 104
The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales 103, 124, 451–2, 453
Omar Khayyam (Romany version) 103
Poacher’s Calendar 102
Romane Gilia 103
The Wind on the Heath 103
Augustus John to 26, 102, 134, 143, 146, 175, 182, 184, 191, 193, 231, 341, 347, 354, 389, 390, 414, 431, 439, 451
Walter Raleigh to 100
Sampson, Margaret (née Sprunt) 101, 106, 141, 289, 451
Augustus John to 166, 231, 233, 235, 238, 548–9
Gwen John to 95
Ida John to 123, 138, 142, 174, 191, 193, 194, 196, 215–16, 226
Sampson, Michael 101, 289, 451, 549; John Sampson to 104, 452
Sandon Studios Society 106, 361
Sargent, John Singer: England’s pre-eminent portrait painter 51; impressed by AJ’s drawings 54; Sir William Richmond on 93; exhibits at the NEAC 94; AJ scorns 95; drawing used instead of AJ’s portrait on Yeats’s Collected Poems 245; not impressed by AJ’s ‘The Pageant of War’ 672 (n. 124); mentioned 68, 292, 428, 468, 521
Saunders, Edie 589
Saunders, Fred 589
Schepeler, Alexandra (‘Alick’): ‘strange charm’ 209–10; relationship with AJ 209, 210–13, 218–21, 222; AJ’s portraits and drawings 213–14, 225, 258; Dorelia banishes 224, 258, 259; death 590; mentioned 359 Augustus John to 83, 199, 202–3, 207, 210–11, 212, 214, 215, 218–19, 220–1, 222, 223, 228, 229, 236, 244, 246, 248, 296, 304, 416, 433
Schepeler, John Daniel 209
Schepeler, Sarah (née Briggs) 209
Schwabe, ‘Birdie’ 422
Schweitzer, Albert: sits to AJ 593
Scobel, Emile 77
Scott, Dr Clifford 534
Scott, Stevenson 493
Scrutton, Hugh 293
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1912) xiv, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 348, 349, 350–1
Segonzac, André 345
Selborne Church, Hampshire 590
Seymour, Miranda: Ottoline Morrell… 268
Shakespeare, Olivia: W. B. Yeats to 245fn
Shakespeare, William 525
Hamlet 37
King John 73
King Lear 73
Sonnet CXLVI xi
The Winter’s Tale 62
Shankland, Virginia 43
Shannon, Charles 99, 107, 148, 242, 244, 299, 334, 342
Shaw, Charlotte (née Payne-Townshend) 410; described by AJ 411
Shaw, G. Bernard: ‘bearded demon’ xiv, 445; ‘subject of a bust by Rodin’ 49; sits to AJ 410–11; described by 411; AJ’s portraits 208, 411–12, 429, 464; praises The Silver Tassie 519; ‘gorgeous thing’ 528; brought in to amuse Montgomery 559–60; ‘too old for sittings’ 593
Shelley, Lillian (model) 378, 418
Shephard, Nicolette see Devas, Nicolette
Shephard, Rupert 528
Sherrington, Sir John: AJ portrait 641 (n. 49)
Shone, Richard xxxii, 464, 487, 515–16; Bloomshury Portraits 334
Shute, Dale 15fn
Shute, Muriel see Matthews, Muriel
Shute, Victor Lauder 15fn
Shute, Winifred (née John): birth 4, 5; childhood 5, 12–13, 14; education 13, 18–19; character 14–15, 24–5; relationship with father 23, 24, 25; pairs off with Thornton 28; giggles with Gwen 40; shares flat with AJ and Gwen 47–8; stays with AJ and Ida 115; travels in Canada and America 15fn, 25, 126; difficult relationship with Thornton 161; becomes an accomplished violinist 14, 15fn; marriage and children 15fn, 24, 404, 438; appeals to AJ not to write memoir of Gwen 573; mentioned xxx, 41, 105, 136, 163, 381
Augustus John to 89, 96, 561–2, 594
Ida John to 117, 140, 143, 146, 167
Sibthorp, Veronica, Dylan Thomas to 532fn
Sickert, Robert 75
Sickert, Walter: meets AJ 66; a member of ‘London Impressionists’ 92, 93, 94; on Legros 34; on Newlyn Group 92; respects AJ’s work 94, 173, 407, 426; clothes 121, 592; member of Artists’ Association 330, 348, and Camden Town Group 348, 349; mentioned xxxii, 202, 329, 331, 351, 419, 563
Siena, Italy 312
Signorelli, Luca 312, 337, 340, 435
Simpson, F. M. 114
Sisley, Alfred 344
Sitwell, Georgia 512
Sitwell, Osbert 119, 425–6, 576
Sitwells, the xxvi, 45, 419, 454, 479
Slade, Felix 33
Slade, Jessie (née McNeill) 225, 247, 656 (n. 109)
Slade, Ursula, Dorelia McNeill to 305
Slade School of Art, London 30, 32–6, 38–40, 56, 57, 139, 209, 210, 260, 330, 336
Sliwinski, Jan 381
Smith, Augusta (née Phillips) 9
Smith, F. E.: Lord Beaverbrook to 426
Smith, Leah (AJ’s ‘Aunt Lily’) 5, 6, 11
Smith, Mary (née Thornton) (AJ’s grandmother) 9, 10
Smith, (Sir) Matthew: liberated from nervous paralysis 154; AJ admires his work 346–7; in Paris with Innes 352; helps Vivien John 537; marriage fails 552; AJ visits in France 589; devastated by war 591; he and AJ paint each other 591; together in Chelsea 591–2; death 591, 592; RA memorial show 592; mentioned 208, 339, 345, 500, 533
Augustus John to xxv, 589, 590
Smith, Lady (Matthew) see Salmond, Gwen
Smith, Rosina (AJ’s ‘Aunt Rose’) 5–6, 11
Smith, Sarah Ann 9
Smith, Thomas (AJ’s grandfather) 9, 10, 59, 68
Smith, Thomas (his son) 9
Smith, Zadock (AJ’s great uncle) 9
Social Credit Party 576
Society of British Artists, The 478
Society of Twelve 173–4, 240, 257, 397
Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin 338
Southampton Street, London (No.39) 88
Spain: AJ fails to reach 270–1; series of impressions (1922) 438–4; AJ in Madrid 484; AJ and Dorelia in (1954–5) 588–9; author visits xix
Spalding, Frances 328
Speaker 93
Spencer, Lord: AJ’s portrait 469
Spencer, Stanley 171, 330, 366, 407, 507
‘The Apple Gatherers’ 56
‘The Nativity’ 56
Spender, Stephen 580
World Within World xiv
Squire, J. C. 396
Stamfordham, Lord 470
Stancourt, John Augustus 534
Star, The 261
Starr, Sidney 85
Steen, Marguerite 279
Steer, Philip Wilson: as artist and teacher 38–9, 90; influences AJ 39, 56; on AJ’s drawing methods 45; exhibits at NEAC 92, 94; AJ succeeds in Order of Merit 564; mentioned 89, 120, 285, 331, 343, 500
‘Yachts’ 285
Steiner, George xvi
Stephen, Virginia see Woolf, Virginia
Stevenson, Frances (‘Pussy’) 408–9, 440; AJ to 440
Stewart-Richardson, Lady Constance 372–3fn
Stonyhurst College, nr Whalley, Lancashire 540, 541, 545
Stopes, Marie 192
Strachey, James 285–6
Strachey, Julia 545–6
Strachey, Lytton: ‘bearded demon’ xiv; recoils at Liverpool’s poverty 97; on AJ and his art 249, 264; asks why people get so excited about art 328; and Henry Lamb 358; at Alderney 381; mistaken for AJ xiv; dances with AJ 398; asked to write a book about AJ xiii; deplores AJ’s appearance in khaki 430; in ‘ecstasy’ over an AJ portrait 463; author researches xiii, xxvii; mentioned 263, 320, 445, 495
Carrington to 421
Stresemann, Gustav, sits to AJ 461, 485–6
Strindberg, Frida 374–8, 380, 417, 418, 447
Marriage with Genius (autobiograpy) 376
Strindberg, J. August 375
Strong, L. A. G. 118
Stubbs, Vera (formerly Fearing and Montgomery) 495; AJ to 513
Suggia, Guilhermina 462, 463; AJ’s portrait 462–4
Summers, Gerald: ‘Lines to Augustus John’s Car’ 674 (n.9)
Sunday Herald 423
Sunday Times xxvii, 335, 570, 586
Sutherland, Graham: ‘Winston Churchill’ 468
Sutton, Eric: AJ to 442
Swanage, Dorset: Pevril Tower 74, 82–4, 90
Swinburne, Algernon 38, 298, 322
Symons, Arthur: early life and marriage 295; meets AJ 145, 295; relationship with AJ 294–7, 303; on Ida John 117; goes mad in Italy 297; provokes kindness in AJ 298–9; AJ’s portraits 299, 410, 426; Quinn diagnoses his complaint 302; ‘very gaga’ 304; member of the Gypsy Lore Society 283; lunches with AJ ‘in Khaki’ 430; Gwen John stays with 550; mentioned 300, 319, 438, 450
‘The Greatness of Augustus John’ 295
‘Prologue for a Modern Painter: to A. E. John’ 296
‘The Wanderers’ 278
Augustus John to 308, 311, 312, 432
Symons, Rhoda (née Bowser) 295, 297, 299, 550, 551
Tagore, Rabindranath: William Rothenstein to 172
Taubman, Mary: meets Edwin John xx–xxi; her researches for Gwen John xxi–xxii, xxvii, xxx; meets and helps the author xx, xxi, xxii; on Dorelia 601
Tenby, Wales 3, 11, 14, 15–17, 18, 28, 29, 56; Greenhill School 19–20, 26, 29; Lexden Terrace (No.5) 380; Rope Walk Field (No.50) 3; St Catherine’s 20–1, 29; Southbourne, South Cliff St 55; Victoria House 12–13, 22, 23, 40–1, 42; confers Freedom of Borough on AJ 594
Tenby Observer and County News 594
Tennyson, Charles: Dorelia McNeill to 372
Terry, Ellen 61
Thame, Buckinghamshire: The Spread Eagle 538, 637 (n. 82)
Thomas, Asa 293
Thomas, Caitlin (née Macnamara): at Alderney with Johns 412, 413, 537; fails to entrap Caspar John 529; relationship with AJ 528, 529–31, 532; meets and marries Dylan Thomas 531, 532; mentioned xx, xxxii
Leftover Life to Kill 570
Thomas, Dylan: meets Caitlin 531; fights AJ 531–2; melodrama at Laugharne xx, 532; marries Caitlin 532; relationship with AJ 532–3; AJ pays for dinner 420, 531; AJ’s portraits 208, 533; on AJ 523, 562; tells AJ to take up poetry 566; death 590; mentioned xiii, xxvi, xxxii, 451, 567; ‘Into her lying down head’ 530
Thomas, Edward 282
Thornton, William Vincent 9
Thorskinsson, Haraldar 381
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 512
Tillyard, S. K.: The Impact of Modernism 351
Time magazine 27
Times, The: notice of Ida John’s death 238; on ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ 328; on AJ’s paintings 330, 333, 334, 335, 407, 412, 425, 435, 523, 586–7; on AJ’s non-election to the RA 475
Tite Street (No.33), Chelsea 521, 562, 581
Titian (Tiziano Vecelli) 54, 275, 512
‘Philip II’ 145
‘Venus’ 484
Tobin, Agnes 298, 299, 302, 304
Tonks, Henry: starts at Slade 35; influence on AJ 32, 33, 36, 38, 44, 79, 336; campaigns against ‘Roger Fry rabble’ 39–40; impressed by Edna Waugh’s work 50; banishes Mrs Everett to basement 52; admires AJ’s work 53, 54; discourages Ida 64; praises Rothenstein’s portrait of AJ 81; buys AJ’s drawings 88; joins NEAC 93; opinion of Wyndham Lewis’s work 121; on John establishment 133; unexpected reaction to Fry 328–9; mentioned 54, 78, 89, 107, 240, 350, 428
Tooth, Dudley 479–80, 597; AJ to 558
Tooth’s Gallery: exhibitions of AJ’s work 480, (1938) 514, 523
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de 76
Townshend, Theodosia: AJ to 414
Tredegar, Lady 415, 468; AJ’s portrait 426
Tredegar, Lord (Evan Morgan) 373fn, 454, 456; AJ to 427, 432
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm 119
Tree, Iris 374, 381, 405, 415; ‘To Iris [Tree]’ (Augustus John) 609
Treece, Henry: Dylan Thomas to 523
Truth 261
Turner, J. M. W. 458
Turner, Percy Moore: Quinn to 491
Tuscany, AJ in (1910) 311–12
Twentieth Century 569
Tyrwhitt, Ursula: as Slade student 54; AJ’s first serious girlfriend 60–1; AJ’s portrait of 201; worries about Gwen John 403; likes AJ’s drawings 412; sees Gwen John in England 552, 553; mentioned 118, 163
Augustus John to 41, 42–3, 77, 78, 79, 85, 87, 247, 404, 476
Gwen John to 22, 25, 48, 49, 94–5, 136, 137, 147, 160, 164, 217, 341, 403, 437, 551, 552, 553
Tyrwhitt, Walter 552
United States of America, AJ’s six visits to 487–96; Boston 494; Buffalo 488–9; New York 488, 489–92; Pittsburgh 333, 488
Vanity Fair (US magazine) 488
Van-t-Hoff (Dutch architect of the Mallord Street house) 397–8
Varda, Jean 372–3fn
Vattetot-sur-Mer, France 75–7
Velázquez, Diego 73, 124, 279, 292, 435, 484
Venice: Marchesa Casati, decadent queen of 454–5; AJ and Vivien in (1933) 512–13
Vere, Edward de 525
Veronese, Paolo 512
Vers et Prose (journal) 207
Villa Ste-Anne see Martigues, Provence
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon 307
Vivian, Lord 595
Voluntary Contraception League 560
Vorticists 329, 417, 418, 426, 516, 517
Wadsworth, Edward 402
Wagner, Richard 205
Walden, Lady de 406; AJ’s portrait 393, 394
Walden, Lord Howard de 381, 393–4, 395; AJ’s portraits 426
Wales 26–7; and AJ’s childhood see Haverfordwest; Tenby; AJ’s love of Prescelly Mountains 5, 27; camping trip with McEvoy and Evans 41; with Sampson 126; AJ at Bettws-Gwerfil-Goch with Sampson and the gypsies 289–91, at Nant-ddu with Innes 347, 352, 354–5, 359, 361, 390, 395, 397, 400; at Llwynythyl with Holbrooke and Sime 395, 397, 400; at Laugharne with Dylan Thomas and Caitlin xx, 531–2; Tenby confers Freedom of the Borough on AJ 594; National Library xxvi, xxvii, xxix; National Museum xxiv–xxv, xxx, 527
Walker, Maynard: Edwin John to 571
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 96, 110, 288, 292, 293
Warlock, Peter (Philip Heseltine) 566
Warner, Sylvia Townsend 27, 164, 530
Watney, Simon: English Post-Impressionism 336
Watts, G. F. 91, 173, 334, 338
Watts-Dunton, Theodore 283
Waugh, Alec: The Loom of Youth 536
Waugh, Edna see Hall, Edna Clarke
Waugh, Evelyn 546, 580; Vile Bodies 542
Waverley, Lady 501
Weekly Critical Review 295
West, Max 603
Western Daily Press 292
Westminster, Duke of 456
Westminster Gazette 93
Westminster School of Art, London 35, 128
Westray, Grace 47, 135, 635 (n. 29)
Wheeler, Sir Charles: on AJ’s appearance 420; on his work 596; relied on by AJ 597–8; at AJ’s funeral 599
Augustus John to 597
Wheeler, Mavis (née Mabel Wright, formerly Cole) affair with Horace de Vere Cole 524–5; becomes AJ’s mistress 525–6, 527–8; and Tristan’s birth 525; abducts Tristan from Fryern Court 527; marries Mortimer Wheeler 526–7; at Horace’s funeral 550; Jonathan Cape has eye on 568; makes AJ forget his age 581; shoots lover 595
Augustus John to 508, 513, 535, 547
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer: challenged to a duel by AJ 526–7
Whistler, James McNeill: ceases to exhibit at NEAC 92; galvanizes Slade Life Class 56–7; instructs Gwen John in Paris 71, 72, 88, 161; visited by AJ 73; on his own painting 92; lunches with AJ 133; mentioned 37, 66, 257, 292, 328, 495, 563
White, John (AJ’s son in law) 537
White, Vivien (née John) (AJ’s and Dorelia’s second daughter): birth 412; childhood 369, 412, 413, 447, 474, 482, 486, 541; schooling 412, 536; relationship with father 388, 446, 535, 536, 537; at Fryern Court 498, 500, 501; on Gwen John 553; in Venice with AJ 512–13; visits Jamaica with parents 513, 514; another ‘rich occurrence’ in France 522; nurses in war 563; at father’s deathbed 599; helps author xx; mentioned 437, 593
Augustus John to 557
Henry John to 542
Whitman, Walt 41; Leaves of Grass 37
Whitney, Mrs Harry Payne 488
Wigmore Street, London (n. 58) 65, 66, 74, 105
Wilde, Constance 61
Wilde, Oscar: a character 45; meets AJ 78; describes Arthur Symons 295; AJ mimics 500; quoted 518; mentioned 322, 353
Wildenstein Gallery, Bond Street 558, 571
Wilkinson, Louis: John Cowper Powys to 593–4
Williams, Emlyn: AJ to 563
Williamson, Henry 568
Wilson, George 61
Wilson, President Woodrow 441
Wilton, Andrew 279
Wimborne, Lady 360
Wimborne, Lord 386
Winars, Walter 423–4
Winchester, 16th Marquis of 595
Winstedt, Eric Otto (‘Old Mother’) 283, 310
Wood, Abraham, King of the Gypsies 289
Wood, Christopher 342, 446–7, 484
Wood, Derwent 424
Wood, Matthew 289–90
Wood, T. Martin 292
Woodbury, Charles 494
Woolcombe, Rev Canon K. J. 548, 685 (n. 154)
Woolf, Leonard 505–6
Woolf, Virginia (née Stephen): on Euphemia Lamb 205, 248; on Ottoline Morrell 262, 264; shocked by AJ’s 1929 exhibition 480; and Dr Maurice Wright 505; mentioned 268, 286, 327, 331, 347
Roger Fry to 349
Woolsey, Gamel 538
Wright, Alfred 27
Wright, Dr Maurice 505–6
Wright, Captain Peter 434, 437
Yates, Dora (‘Romani Rawnie’): at scattering of John Sampson’s ashes 549; correspondence with AJ xxvi, 560–1; author meets xix
Augustus John to 561, 569–70, 580, 582, 595
Yeats, John Butler (‘Jack’) 61, 245
Yeats, W. B.: ‘poet of the twilight’ 121; ‘won-derful man!’ 210; AJ’s portraits of 208, 242–5, 509, 510; on AJ 1, 242, 245–6, 355, 517; on Jack Nettleship 66; on ‘artistic camps’ in England 334; sculpted by AJ 592; mentioned 280, 299, 516
Lady Gregory to 410
Young, Mrs (landlady’s friend) 80, 81
Yport, France 77