Welsh Painters - Augustus John, Richard Wilson, Gwen John, Christopher Williams, Peter Edwards, John Beard, Alfred Janes, Thomas Jones (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Augustus John, Richard Wilson, Gwen John, Christopher Williams, Peter Edwards, John Beard, Alfred Janes, Thomas Jones, Nicholas Evans, Kyffin Williams, Michael Gustavius Payne, Martyn Jones, Ernest Zobole, Carey Morris, Peter Prendergast, Molly Parkin, Thomas Barker, Thomas E. Stephens, Ivor Williams, John Downman, Joseph Murray Ince, Will Roberts, Stanley Cornwell Lewis, Andrew Vicari, David Griffiths, Ceri Richards, William Parry, James Dickson Innes, George Frederick Harris, Calvert Jones, Colin Jones, Frances Bunsen, Margaret Lindsay Williams, Ruth Jen, Dorothy Tennant, Brenda Chamberlain, Wilfred Mitford Davies, Ifor Pritchard, Rob Piercy, Alexander Talbot Rice, Ernest Morgan. Excerpt: 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. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. His work was favourably compared in London with that of Gauguin and Matisse. He then developed a style of portraiture that was imaginative and often extravagant, catching an instantaneous attitude in his subjects." John was born at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, the younger son and third of four children in his family. His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor; his mother, Augusta Smith from a long line of Sussex plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen. At the age of seventeen he briefly attended the Tenby School of Art, then left Wales for London, studying at the Slade School of Art UCL in London (his sister, Gwen, was with him at the Slade and became an important artist in her own right), where he became the star pupil ...