Augustus John (153 page)

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Authors: Michael Holroyd

Gwen John to
152–3
,
154–5
,
156–7
,
159
,
162
,
174
,
182–3

Ida John to
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,
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,
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,
157–8
,
177–8
,
179
,
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,
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,
185

McNeill, Edie
see
Macnamara, Edie

McNeill, Jessie
see
Slade, Jessie

McNeill, Kate Florence (
née
Neal)
128
,
381

McNeill, William George
127–8

Madrid, Spain
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
527
fn

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
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
341–2

Mann, Harrington
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Manresa Road, Chelsea
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,
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fn
,
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Mansfield, Katherine
431

Manson, J. B.
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,
508

Margaret, Princess
473

Maria Katerina: AJ in love with
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,
87

Marinetti, Emilio Filippo Tommaso
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,
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
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,
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)
15
fn
,
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)

Maupassant, Guy de
145

Mauron, Marie
309
,
522
,
574

May, Betty
418

Memling, Hans
105

Mendel, Sir Charles
539

Meninsky, Bernard
435

Menton, France
197–8

Meo, Innes: AJ to
435

Meudon, Paris: Shaw visits Rodin
49
; Gwen John in
403–4
,
437
,
438
; Mary Taubman meets Edwin John in xx-xxi; Musée Rodin
xxvii

Meyer, Kuno
100
; AJ’s portrait
115
,
361

Meynell, Francis
299

Michel, Louise
38

Milan, Italy: a gypsy assembly
312–13

Millais, Sir John
92

Millet, J. F.
54
,
91
,
92
,
275

Mistral, Frédéric
309
,
319

Mix, Tom: AJ’s portrait
493

Modigliani, Amedeo: AJ sees in Paris
345
,
396
; his stone heads affect AJ deeply
396
,
500
; death
440

Moeran, E. J.
457

Monckton, Sir Walter: Lord Beaverbrook to
434

Monet, Claude
92
,
344

Monroe, Harriet: Ezra Pound to
402

Monsell, Elie
83

Montgomery, General Bernard: sits to AJ
559–60
,
571

Montgomery, Vera
see
Stubbs, Vera

Moore, George: and NEAC exhibitions
93
; skirmish with AJ
120
; on Symons
295
; on AJ as ‘wonder of Chelsea’
332
; mentioned
510

Moore, Gerald
464

Moore, Henry
171
,
500
,
560

Moorehead, Alan: attempts to write AJ’s biography
xiii
,
583–4

Moréas, Jean
207
,
440

Morgan, Charles
45
; AJ’s portrait
593

Morgan, Evan
see
Tredegar, Lord

Morley, Arthur
17
,
21–2
,
29

Morning Post
328
,
336
,
476

Morrell, Lady Ottoline: first impresssions of AJ
260–1
; their subsequent relationship
262–7
; meets Dorelia
267–8
; Lamb as a replacement for AJ
268–9
; AJ’s children farmed out to
271
,
278
; buys and re-titles AJ’s ‘Girl on the Cliff’
277
; visits AJ and family in field at Grantchester
286–7
; meets AJ and Dorelia at Aix
320–1
; AJ paints while she is ‘safely out of sight’
406
; her portrait produces furore
261
; recommends doctor to AJ
506
; AJ finds her ‘more paintable than ever’
507

Augustus John to
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,
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,
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,
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,
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270–1
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
279–80
,
284–5
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288–9
,
294–5
,
305
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
316–17
,
326
,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
447
,
462
,
484
,
505
,
506
,
507

Henry Lamb to
325
,
358

Dorelia McNeill to
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,
319
,
507

Katherine Mansfield to
431

Morrell, Philip
262
,
266–7
,
269
,
507

Morris, Edward:
Lord Leverhulme
468

Morris, Jan
407

Mosley, Diana
504
,
582

Mousehole, Cornwall
561

Muggeridge, Malcolm: interview with AJ
592

Muirhead, David
200

Munnings, Alfred
400
,
433
,
477

Munthe, Axel
455

Murray, Gilbert
285
; AJ’s portrait
593

Murray, Lt-Gen. Sir James
408

Muspratt, Edmund: AJ’s portrait
641
(n. 49)

Myers, John
283

Nant-ddu, North Wales: Innes and AJ’s cottage
354–5
,
359
,
361
,
390
,
395
,
397
,
400

‘Nant-ddu’ (Augustus John)
352

Nares, Owen
545

Nash, John
435
,
517

Nash, Paul
332
,
407
,
418
,
435
,
592

Nation
331

National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment
560

National Council for Civil Liberties
576

National Gallery, London: AJ spends time in
36
; offers £650 for Dowdall portrait
293
; as canteen and concert hall in war
563
; ‘British Painting since Whistler’ exhibition
563–4
; mentioned
466

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
293

National Library of Wales
xxvi
,
xxvii
,
xxix

National Museum of Wales
xxiv–xxv
,
xxx
,
527

National Portrait Society
397

Netherlands, the
40
,
55
,
67–8
,
511

Nettleship, Ada (
née
Hinton) (Ida’s mother): appearance
65
; dressmaking trade
61
,
65–6
; objects to AJ
65
,
66
,
89
; with Ida in Liverpool
105
; and David’s birth
112
; Ida abandons for Dorelia’s baby
183
; objects to Paris scheme
189–9
,
190
;
recuperates at Menton
197
; with Ida in Paris
230
,
231–2
,
233
; takes eldest children back to Wigmore Street
237–8
; arrives at Equihen
247
; ‘war to the knife’ with Dorelia
251
,
252
; removes children and Ida’s ashes to Wigmore Street
252–3
; heated exchanges with AJ
272–4
; children’s relationship with
356
,
387
; death
548
; mentioned
136
,
141
,
186
,
487

Augustus John to
236–7
,
271
,
275
,
287
,
386
,
396
,
453

Ida John to
63
,
64
,
71
,
72
,
73
,
98
,
105
,
109–10
,
229

Nettleship, Edith
540
,
553

Nettleship, Edward (‘Uncle Ned of Nutcombe Hill’)
253
,
254–5

Nettleship, Ethel (Ida’s sister): laughs at Ida’s ‘spooning’
62–3
; on AJ
66
; bravely stays at St James’s Road
105
; on Ida
117
; at Fitzroy Street
136
; appeals to Ida
189
; renounces marriage
190
fn
; stays with Ida
226
; at Ida’s deathbed
233
; on her mother
274
; takes children to the seaside
387
; mentioned
118
,
141
,
537
,
546

Ida John to
63

Nettleship, Ida
see
John, Ida

Nettleship, Jack (John Trivett) (Ida’s father): member of ‘the Brotherhood’
61
; painter of melodramatic zoo animals
61
; religious views
63
; dismayed at the sight of AJ
66
; his cocoa drinking
66
; philosophical about AJ’s marriage to his daughter
89
; NEAC rejects his work
94
; final illness and death
117–18

Ida John to
112

Nettleship, Ursula (Ida’s sister): disappointed in Ida’s wedding
105
; at Fitzroy St
136
; campaigns against Ida’s immorality
189
,
190
; renounces marriage
190
; with Mrs Nettleship and Ida in Menton
197
; looks after the boys
252
; takes children to seaside
387
; on AJ at her mother’s deathbed
548
; mentioned
118
141

Augustus John to
253–4

Caspar John to
318

Ida John to
112
,
189
,
190–1
,
216

Ada Nettleship to
230
,
231–2
,
237–8
,
251
,
252

Edward Nettleship to
254–5

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