Augustus Edwin John
ARTISTAugustus Edwin John 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." In the second volume of BLAST, Percy Wyndham Lewis wrote, referring to John, that the ten years up to 1914 had been "the Augustan decade." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.
moreBiography adapted from Wikipedia: Augustus John (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Augustus Edwin John, wall art & digital downloads
Shop 1 artworks by Augustus Edwin John (British, 1878–1961) — every piece is public domain and can be printed as canvas, rolled canvas, framed canvas or a framed print.
Augustus Edwin John 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." In the second volume of BLAST, Percy Wyndham Lewis wrote, referring to John, that the ten years up to 1914 had been "the Augustan decade." He was the younger brother of the painter Gwen John.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Augustus Edwin John's work on the site falls under Paintings (1).
By orientation: 1 portrait.
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