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Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over.
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Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. He was the brother of the painter Gwen John.
Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over.
Augustus John was a Welsh painter who was an accomplished portraitist, muralist, and draughtsman. John studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1894 to 1898. By age 20 he had won a reputation as one of the most brilliant draughtsmen in England. His portraits and other paintings done.
Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sargent and Charles Wellington Furse "... was over.
Feb 15, 2011 · Augustus John. Even after he grew up and achieved international fame he often returned to the county of his birth, affording it a warm and fond place in his heart. The third of four children,...
Painter Augustus John became a leading figure of the artistic avant-garde in Britain at the turn of the century. Born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire he was the third of four children. He trained at the Slade School of Art (1894-98) and later in Paris with his sister, the painter Gwen John.
Augustus John, a Welsh painter of portraits, figure compositions and landscapes, was the first British artist to be referred to as a post-Impressionist. He is famous for his portraits of notable figures, and for his scenes of the Romany people.
Augustus John was a Welsh portraitist, landscape painter, draughtsman, lithographer and etcher. He is known primarily for his penetrating portraits of distinguished contemporaries and was a significant exponent of Post-Impressionism in England, pioneering the technique of oil sketching directly onto bare canvas.
Augustus John (1878-1961) was a leading figure of the avant-garde in the Edwardian period. A flamboyant personality, who cultivated a strong bohemian image for himself, John’s later work never quite fulfilled his early promise.
