11th Oct, 2023 15:00
British & International Pictures
* AUGUSTUS EDWIN JOHN RA (WELSH 1878 - 1961)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN IN A BOW TIE
oil on canvas, signed
framed
image size 45cm x 35cm, overall size 66cm x 56cm
Note: Augustus Edwin John OM RA 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."
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