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Authors: Michael Holroyd

Jacob Epstein to
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Lady Gregory to
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Augustus John to
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passim,
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passim,
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Gwen John to
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Arthur Symons to
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Rhoda Symons to
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W. B. Yeats to
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Rainbird, George
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Raleigh, Professor Walter
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‘Rani, the’
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Dowdall, Mary

Ransome, Arthur:
Bohemia in London
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Raphael
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435

Ravenna, Italy, AJ in
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Read, Sir Herbert
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Rebel Art Centre, London
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Redon, Odilon
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Reed, Trelawney Dayrell: drops in at Alderney
382
; literary quarrels with AJ
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; goes to Tenerife with Innes
400
; survives war
450
; on AJ
533
; AJ’s portrait
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,
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Reid, B. L.
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The Man from New York

300

Reilly, Sir Charles
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(n. 71); AJ’s portrait
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(n. 49)

Augustus John to
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Reinhardt, Max
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Reitlinger, Gerald
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Réjane (actress)
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Rembrandt van Rijn: influence on AJ
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Renoir, Pierre Auguste
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Renvyle House, Connemara
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Reveille
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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
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145
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,
342

Riddell, Sir George
439

Robert-Fleury, Tony
35

Roberts, Arthur
37

Roberts, William
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407
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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
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,
235

Rogers, Claude
517

Rosenberg, Harold
336–7

Ross, Robert
328
; AJ to
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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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138

Rossetti, William Michael
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Rossetti Studios, Flood Street
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,
200

Rossi, Carmen
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73

Rothenstein, Albert
see
Rutherston, Albert

Rothenstein, Alice (
née
Knewstub; stage name ‘Kingsley’): with the Vattetot-sur-Mer painting party
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; reaction to AJ and Gwen’s occupation of their house
81
; at Le Puy with AJ and Rothenstein
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; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida
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; Hudson in love with
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; friendship with Ida
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see also Ida John to
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below
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sits to AJ
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; disliked by Gwen John
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; horror at Paris scheme
188
; mistakes Pyramus for Ida’s baby
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Augustus John to
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Gwen John to
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Ida John to
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194–5
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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
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Augustus John to
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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
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, 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
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; gives wedding party for AJ and Ida
89–90
; entertains artists and writers at Church Row
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,
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; sends AJ on marathon walks
123–4
; on Dorelia
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; 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
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; 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
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174
; mentioned
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‘The Doll’s House’
75

Men and Memories
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173

Charles Conder to
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Jacob Epstein to
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Eric Gill to
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Augustus John to
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Ida John to
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T. E. Lawrence to
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Neville Lytton to
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Ramsay MacDonald to
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William Orpen to
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John Quinn to
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Henry Tonks to
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Rouault, Georges
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Rousseau, Henri (‘Le Douanier’)
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Rowan, Eric
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Rowse, A. L.
593

Royal Academy of Art, London: all-powerful
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; Poynter president of
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; Legros hostile to
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; and Slade
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; NEAC in opposition to
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; ‘vast collection of wrong-minded stuff’
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; academizing process
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; Orpen joins
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; Wadsworth and AJ drill in courtyard
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; AJ’s election (1921)
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; AJ’s work exhibited (1922–
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; Bankhead and Du Maurier portraits exhibited (1930)
470
; AJ’s resignation (1938)
476–7
, and re-election (1940)
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; Diploma Gallery exhibition (1954)
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fn
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585–8
; AJ fails to finish triptych for (1960)
597
; the Matthew Smith Memorial Exhibition
592
; mentioned
30
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Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours
478

Rubens, Peter Paul
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‘The Three Graces’
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Ruskin, John
33

Russell, Bertrand
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578
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Russell, Irene
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Russell, John
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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
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201
,
581

John Folhergill to
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Augustus John to
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Paul Nash to
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William Orpen to
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William Rothenstein to
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Henry Tonks to
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Rutherston, Charles: AJ to
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Rutter, Frank
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330–1
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Ryan, Thomas Fortune
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Sadler’s Wells, London
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Saint-Bernard Restaurant
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St Catherine’s School, Tenby
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Saint Gaudens, Homer
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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
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574
; author visits
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Salaman, Bessie
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118
; Ida Nettleship to
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Salaman, Clement
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Salaman, Dorothy
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; Ida Nettleship to
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