Augustus John (155 page)

Jacob Epstein to
423

Lady Gregory to
244

Augustus John to
290
,
294
,
298
,
299
,
301
,
304
,
306
,
313
,
314
-I
5
,
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

Gwen John to
xxvii
,
436

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

Raphael
73
,
145
,
312
,
435

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

Gwen John to
xxvii
,
235

Rogers, Claude
517

Rosenberg, Harold
336–7

Ross, Robert
328
; AJ to
204

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
61
,
138

Rossetti, William Michael
66

Rossetti Studios, Flood Street
139
,
200

Rossi, Carmen
71
,
73

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

Gwen John to
149
,
150

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

Men and Memories
68
,
173

Charles Conder to
82

Jacob Epstein to
171

Eric Gill to
329
,
341

Augustus John to
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106–7
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114
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118
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133–4
,
135
,
138
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145
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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

William Orpen to
90
,
433

John Quinn to
303

Henry Tonks to
133

Rouault, Georges
344–5
,
571

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)
469
fn
,
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

Rubens, Peter Paul
54
,
55

‘The Three Graces’
484

Ruskin, John
33

Russell, Bertrand
262
,
576
,
578
,
579

Russell, Irene
612

Russell, John
586
,
589

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

Augustus John to
112
,
389

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

Sadler’s Wells, London
51
,
70

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, Clement
62
,
65

Salaman, Dorothy
61
,
89
; Ida Nettleship to
64
,
65