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259:, Wales, where governesses provided the early education of Gwen and her sister Winifred. The siblings often went to the coast of Tenby to sketch. John said that she would make "rapid drawings of beached gulls, shells and fish on stray pieces of paper, or sometimes in the frontispiece of the book she was reading." Although John painted and drew from an early age, her earliest surviving work was made at age 19.
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day. We don't go to Heaven in families now but one by one") and her decision to live in France after 1903 may have been the result of her desire to escape the overpowering personality of her famous brother, although, according to the art historian David Fraser
Jenkins, "there were few occasions when she did anything against her will, and she was the more ruthless and dominating of the two".
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Gwen John's art, in its quietude and its subtle colour relationships, stands in contrast to her brother's far more vivid and assertive work. Though she was once overshadowed by her popular brother, critical opinion now tends to view Gwen as the more talented of the two. Augustus himself had predicted
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In Meudon John lived in solitude, except for her cats. In an undated letter she wrote, "I should like to go and live somewhere where I met nobody I know till I am so strong that people and things could not effect me beyond reason". She wished also to avoid family ties ("I think the family has had its
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in the traditional manner of the old masters. Beginning with her series of paintings of Mère
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of women and children in church. Unlike her oil paintings of solitary women, these sketches frequently depict subjects from behind and in groups. John also made many sketches of her cats. Daringly for a female artist of the era, she made two nude drawings of herself. She created few prints and only
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are intimist works painted in a traditional style characterised by subdued colour and transparent glazes. Even as a student, Augustus's brilliant draughtsmanship and personal glamour made him a celebrity, and stood in contrast to Gwen's quieter gifts and reticent demeanour. Augustus greatly admired
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John's notebooks and letters contain personal formulae for observing nature, painting a portrait, designating colours by a system of numbers, and the like. Their meaning is often obscure, but they reveal John's predilection for order and the lasting influence of
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sitters seated in a three-quarter length format, with their hands in their laps. One of her models, Jeanne Foster, wrote of John: "She takes down my hair and does it like her own ... she has me sit as she does, and I feel the absorption of her personality as I sit".
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artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although in her lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother
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in London in 1926. In that same year she purchased a bungalow in Meudon. In
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his sister's work but believed she neglected her health, and he urged her to take a "more athletic attitude to life". She refused his advice, and demonstrated throughout her life a marked disregard for her physical well-being.
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majority are portraits, but she also painted still life compositions, interiors and a few landscapes. John wrote, "...a cat or a man, its the same thing ... its an affair of volumes ... the object is of no importance."
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at the end of 1900, "an awkward period ensued with Gwen living at the McEvoy family home in
Bayswater", where "she had continued living", "while Ambrose and Mary moved down to Shrivenham in Oxfordshire" in around 1903.
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Britain invites us to keep up with the Johns, but there is only one winner in this tale of sibling rivalry".
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fell in love with John but it was not reciprocated. John's last passion was Véra Oumançoff, for whom she developed an obsession, much to Oumançoff's discomfort.
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this reversal, saying "In 50 years' time I will be known as the brother of Gwen John."
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she remarked: "These are very good, but I prefer my own."
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Uglow, Jennifer S.; Frances Hinton; Maggy Hendry (1999).
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BBC Antiques Roadshow, Cardiff, broadcast 8 October 2023.
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1404:Langdale; Jenkins; John 1986, p. 36.
1352:Langdale; Jenkins; John 1986, p. 41.
1247:Langdale; Jenkins; John 1986, p. 17.
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1324:"'God's little artist' Gwen John"
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532:Her early paintings, such as the
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1711:"Gwyneth Johnstone obituary"
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2396:19th-century Welsh painters
2267:The Story of a Modern Woman
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1993:Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
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1532:Langdale 1987, pp. 17–21.
1229:Langdale 1987, pp. 31–33.
943:– via Google Books.
865:Ivy Leaves in a White Jug
713:, 1903–1904, Tate Gallery
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2043:Elizabeth Shippen Green
2033:Susan Stuart Frackelton
1693:"Obituary: Vivien John"
745:National Gallery of Art
616:The Gwen John Sculpture
595:National Museum Cardiff
339:France and early career
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2416:Académie Carmen alumni
2219:The Portrait of a Lady
2018:Alice Brown Chittenden
1998:Julia Margaret Cameron
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1496:Langdale 1987, p. 122.
1474:Johnson, Paul (2003).
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1185:. Plunkett Lake Press.
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2456:LGBTQ Roman Catholics
2327:The Romance of a Shop
2078:Elizabeth Okie Paxton
1927:19th-century feminism
1770:. New York: Rizzoli.
1514:Langdale 1987, p. vi.
1431:Langdale 1987, p. 81.
1413:Langdale 1987, p. 80.
1395:Schwartz 2001, p. 36.
1259:Langdale 1987, p. 50.
1220:Langdale 1987, p. 15.
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2195:Alice Freeman Palmer
2093:Jessie Willcox Smith
1386:Langdale 1987, p. 2.
1312:Langdale 1987, p. 1.
1084:Gonnard, Catherine.
1074:Langdale 1987, p. 9.
992:Langdale 1987, p. 7.
983:Langdale 1987, p. 5.
962:Langdale 1987, p. 4.
953:Langdale 1987, p. 3.
869:Aberdeen Art Gallery
818:Aberdeen Art Gallery
672:Tristan de Vere Cole
664:Member of Parliament
557:made in 1910 exist.
475:New Chenil Galleries
448:Mère Marie Poussepin
330:becoming engaged to
324:New English Art Club
153:Tristan de Vere Cole
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2334:George Bernard Shaw
2262:Ella Hepworth Dixon
2149:Ella Hepworth Dixon
2088:Pamela Colman Smith
2028:Emma Lampert Cooper
1932:First-wave feminism
1880:, October 22, 2008.
1505:Foster 1999, p. 57.
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1291:Foster 1999, p. 26.
1268:Foster 1999, p. 52.
1238:Foster 1999, p. 29.
1109:Foster 1999, p. 77.
1001:Foster 1999, p. 10.
904:Great Women Artists
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536:(c. 1897–1898) and
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197:Gwendolen Mary John
115:Slade School of Art
57:Gwendolen Mary John
2297:Henry Arthur Jones
2008:Minerva J. Chapman
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1575:Seren Books (2017)
1476:Art: A New History
1182:Rodin: A Biography
1010:Tamboukou pp. 4–5.
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1859:BBC Wales profile
1826:978-1-55553-421-9
1809:978-1-4331-0860-0
1719:. 6 January 2011.
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676:Gwyneth Johnstone
652:Amaryllis Fleming
497:Artistic approach
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1611:tate.org.uk
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1086:"Gwen John"
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430:Armory Show
399:Catholicism
349:Vivien John
273:Henry Tonks
168:Vivien John
148:Caspar John
129:Portraiture
101:Nationality
2380:Categories
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1746:References
1677:. London.
1616:5 December
670:, Vivien,
601:, London.
426:John Quinn
229:(c. 1910s)
216:Early life
185:John Quinn
133:still life
63:1876-06-22
2187:Educators
1783:Gwen John
1753:Gwen John
1478:. p. 675.
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569:Sexuality
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263:Education
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145:(brother)
111:Education
32:Gwen John
2322:Amy Levy
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1820:. UPNE.
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361:Toulouse
353:Bordeaux
246:Augustus
206:Augustus
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95:, France
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682:Gallery
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379:Matisse
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