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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.
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.
Aug 27, 2021 · Mark Lewis of Tenby Museum and Art Gallery in Pembrokeshire, explores the life of one of its most famous sons – the painter Augustus John.
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,...
Augustus John (born January 4, 1878, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales—died October 31, 1961, Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England) 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.
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 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 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. The age of Augustus John was dawning."
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.
