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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
Cake, Mrs (cook) 367, 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
Cape, Jonathan 566–8, 570
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
Carlyle, Thomas 263, 322, 323
Carnegie Institute 493; International Exhibition, Pittsburgh (1910) 333, 488
Carrington, Dora xiii, xxv, 421, 422, 495, 500, 502, 526, 612
Augustus John to 493
Henry Lamb to 502, 503, 505
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
Castle, Tudor 280, 450
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
Clausen, Sir George 91, 107
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
Cockerell, Sydney 293, 464
Codrington, Primrose 521
Coldstream, William 517, 537
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
Corot, Jean-Baptiste 91, 92
Cossa, Francesco del 512
Cotterill, Erica 528; Form of Diary 528
Courbet, Gustave 87, 150, 212
Cowdin, Andrea 525
Crab-tree Club, London 418
Craig, Edith 612
Craig, Gordon 145, 295
Cremnitz, Maurice 207, 440–1
Cripps, Sir Stafford 514
Crowley, Aleister: Confessions 250
Crowninshield, Frank 488
Cunard, Nancy 419, 562
Currie, John 343
D’Abernon, Lady 466, 467
D’Abernon, Lord 461, 466, 470, 486; sits to AJ 466–7
Daily Chronicle 335
Daily Express 468
Daily Mail 195, 335, 436
Daily News 261
Daily Telegraph 43, 600
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
Delphic Review 573, 576–7
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
Diélette, France 275, 276–7
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
Augustus John to 292–3, 313
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
Dublin, AJ in 390–1, 405
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
Augustus John to 575, 587
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
Étretat, France 75, 77
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
Félice (housekeeper) 216, 229
Fergusson, J. D. 323, 330
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
Flaubert, Gustave 120, 207
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
Fleming, Valentine 457, 458
Fletcher, Fanny 381, 555
Flint, Russell 107, 457
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, Paul 207, 440
Fort, Robert 207
Fortuny, Mariano
338, 454
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
Futurists 343, 426, 455
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 VI, King 470, 565
George, Daniel 568, 570; AJ to 570, 596
George, Teresa 24, 357
George, William 8
Géricault, Théodore 150
Gertler, Mark 343, 396, 660 (n. 41)