Augustus John
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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, David xix–xx, 523, 600
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
Keene, Mary: AJ to 533, 563
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
Knight, Laura 400; AJ to 477
Konody, P. G. 430, 435
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
Helen Maitland to 316, 325
Lamb, Nina see Lamb, Euphemia
Lamb, Lady Pansy (née Pakenham) 503
Lamb, Walter 248
Lambert, Constance: Pomona 519
Lambourn, George 510, 511
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
Laver, James xiii, 533
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
Rude Assignment 121, 516, 517
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
Lipczinski, Doonie 112, 361
Listener 516, 568, 569
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 Group’ 347, 348
‘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
Lytton, Neville 89, 332
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
Mackenzie, Mr and Mrs 17, 19
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, Spai
n 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
Manson, J. B. 480, 508
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
Masaccio 312, 340
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)