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Gwyneth Johnstone
Gwyneth Johnstone (18 June 1915 – 8 December 2010) was an English painter who worked on oil and created landscapes containing individuals in modern landscapes starting from the 1950s. Born as the illegitimate daughter to the musician Nora Brownsford and the artist Augustus John, she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art and later the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Johnstone's work was exhibited in art galleries across the United Kingdom and abroad from the 1960s to the late 2000s. Biography Gwyneth Johnstone was born on 18 June 1915 in the Norfolk village of Coltishall; she always concealed her actual birth date. Johnstone was the illegitimate daughter of the musician Nora Brownsford and the artist Augustus John. Her mother gave her daughter the allusive surname of Johnstone from a tutor at Alderney and raised her with a distance relationship with her father in Norwich and London. Johnstone was resented by her half-sisters and was ridiculed by society for being an illegi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coltishall
Coltishall is a village on the River Bure, west of Wroxham, in the English county of Norfolk. The village is located within the Norfolk Broads. History Coltishall's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for Cohhede's land. In the Domesday Book, Coltishall is recorded as a settlement of 16 households in the hundred of South Erpingham. The village was divided between the estates of William de Warenne and Roger de Poitou. In 1231, Coltishall was made a 'free-town' by King Henry III. Furthermore, from the mid-Eighteenth Century, Coltishall was a centre for the malting industry with many wherries being built in the village. In 1939, RAF Coltishall was opened as a base for the Hawker Hurricanes of No. 242 Squadron RAF, with the famous fighter ace Douglas Bader being based in Coltishall during the Second World War. RAF Coltishall continue to be used by the Royal Air Force until its closure in November 2006 following a Ministry of Defence review. The sit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Collins (artist)
James Henry Cecil Collins MBE (23 March 1908 – 4 June 1989) was an English painter and printmaker, originally associated with the Surrealist movement. Life and works Collins was born in Plymouth and worked first as a mechanic at a firm based in Devonport. From 1924 to 1927 he attended Plymouth School of Art. In 1927 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he won the William Rothenstein Life Drawing Prize. From 1951 to 1975 he taught at the Central School of Art. Later, one of his pupils was Ginger Gilmour. Collins was awarded an MBE in June 1979. BBC Radio ran a programme about him in 1981 in the ''Conversations with Artists'' series, with Edward Lucie-Smith. In 1984 BBC TV showed a 30-minute documentary devoted to Collins, 'Fools and Angels', in the 'One Pair of Eyes' series. A retrospective exhibition of his prints was held at the Tate Gallery in 1981. A retrospective of his paintings took place (before Collins died) in 1989. He was buried on the wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by Kingdom of England, English and Kingdom of Scotland, Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against Kingdom of France, France. The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century; the oldest of the British Armed Forces, UK's armed services, it is consequently known as the Senior Service. From the middle decades of the 17th century, and through the 18th century, the Royal Navy vied with the Dutch Navy and later with the French Navy for maritime supremacy. From the mid 18th century, it was the world's most powerful navy until the World War II, Second World War. The Royal Navy played a key part in establishing and defending the British Empire, and four Imperial fortress colonies and a string of imperial bases and coaling stations secured the Royal Navy's ability to assert naval superiority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan De Vere Cole
Tristan John de Vere Cole (born 16 March 1935) is an English television director, now retired. In his first career, he was a Royal Navy Officer for seven years. Life Cole is believed to be the last-surviving illegitimate son of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961). His mother, Mavis Cole, met John at the Café Royal in 1928, and agreed to model for him. In 1931 she married Horace de Vere Cole, a well-known Edwardian practical joker, then in 1932 became the mistress of Augustus John. Cole was brought up in the John household at Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, from the age of 18 months, partly by his mother, and then later by Dorelia McNeill. Cole was educated for three years at Kelly College, Tavistock, from thirteen to sixteen, and then from 1951 trained for a naval career at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. He went on to serve as an officer in the Royal Navy from 1953 to 1960. After his return to civilian life, Cole worked at the Bristol Old Vic as Assistant Stage Manager a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien John
Vivien John (8 March 1915 – 20 May 1994) was a British artist known for her paintings. Biography Vivien John was born at Alderney Manor in Dorset, the daughter of Dorelia McNeill and the artist Augustus John; she would be the last of their four children together. After a Bohemian upbringing in Dorset, Vivien John attended the Slade School of Fine Art from 1932 to 1934 and had her first solo exhibition at the Cooling Gallery in London during 1935 before studying with the Euston Road School of artists in the late 1930s. Travelling with her father, she visited Italy, France and then Kingston in Jamaica where a joint exhibition of their paintings was held. John also spent time in Paris with her aunt, the artist Gwen John, during this period. During the Second World War, Vivien John served as a nurse with the Red Cross The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million Volunteering, volunteers, member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspar John
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Caspar John (22 March 1903 – 11 July 1984) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as First Sea Lord from 1960 to 1963. He was a pioneer in the Fleet Air Arm and fought in the Second World War in a cruiser taking part in the Atlantic convoys, participating in the Norwegian campaign and transporting arms around the Cape of Good Hope to Egypt for use in the western desert campaign. His war service continued as Director-General of Naval Aircraft Production, as naval air attaché at the British embassy in Washington D.C. and then as Commanding Officer of two aircraft carriers. He went on to serve as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1960s. In that capacity he was primarily concerned with plans for the building of the new CVA-01 aircraft-carriers. Early life Born the second of the five sons of the artist Augustus John (1878–1961) and his first wife, Ida John (née Nettleship),Heathcote, p. 136 John was raised with his sibli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amaryllis Fleming
Amaryllis Marie-Louise Fleming (10 December 1925 – 27 July 1999) was a British cello performer and teacher. Early life and education Fleming was born in 1925, reportedly in Switzerland.G. R. Seaman, 'Fleming, Amaryllis Marie-Louise (1925?–1999)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 201accessed 28 March 2014/ref> She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, who was the mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband, although most of her life she was raised as the adopted daughter of Eve Fleming as a pretence to hide her illegitimacy and only discovered her true parentage when she was in her twenties. Fleming was thus a niece to John's sister Gwen and aunt to actress Lucy Fleming. She went away to school at Downe House in Berkshire, but went up to London every three weeks for cello lessons with John Snowden. In 1943 she won a scholarship to stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen John
Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh 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 she was overshadowed during her lifetime by her brother Augustus John and her lover Auguste Rodin, her reputation has grown steadily since her death. Early life Gwen John was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, the second of four children of Edwin William John and his wife Augusta (née Smith). Gwen's elder brother was Thornton John; her younger siblings were Augustus and Winifred. Edwin John was a solicitor whose dour temperament cast a chill over his family, and Augusta was often absent from the children owing to ill health, leaving her two sisters—stern Salvationists—to take her place in the household. Augusta was an amateur watercolourist, and both parents encouraged the children's interest in literature and art. Her mother died when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Daily Press
The ''Eastern Daily Press'' (''EDP'') is a regional newspaper covering Norfolk, northern parts of Suffolk and eastern Cambridgeshire, and is published daily in Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of ..., United Kingdom, UK. Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the ''Eastern Counties Daily Press'', it changed its name to the ''Eastern Daily Press'' in 1872. It switched to the compact (newspaper), compact (Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid) format in the mid-1990s. The paper is now owned and published by Archant, formerly known as Eastern Counties Newspapers Group. It aims to represent the interests of the local population in the region in a non-partisan way, its mission statement being to "champion a fair deal for the future prosperity of the region". Despite i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells-next-the-Sea
Wells-next-the-Sea is a port town on the north coast of Norfolk, England. The civil parish has an area of and in 2001 had a population of 2,451,Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. reducing to 2,165 at the 2011 census. Wells is to the east of the resort of Hunstanton, 20 miles (32 km) to the west of Cromer, and 10 miles (16 km) north of Fakenham. The city of Norwich lies 32 miles (51 km) to the south-east. Nearby villages include Blakeney, Burnham Market, Burnham Thorpe, Holkham and Walsingham.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 – Norfolk Coast Central''. . Origin of name The name is ''Guella'' in the Domesday Book of 1086 (half gallicised, half Latinised from Anglian ''Wella'', a spring). This derives from spring wells of which Wells used to have many, rising through the chalk of the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wighton
Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, north of the town of Fakenham, and north-west of the city of Norwich. The medieval pilgrimage centre of Walsingham lies to the south.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 - Norfolk Coast Central''. . The villages name means 'Farm/settlement with a dwelling'. The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a population of 203 in 92 households, the population increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. Wighton is on the River Stiffkey and used to have a watermill, but this was demolished in May 1866. The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway runs close to the vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's International Art Club
The Women's International Art Club, briefly known as the Paris International Art Club, was founded in Paris in 1900. The club was intended to "promote contacts between women artists of all nations and to arrange exhibitions of their work", and until it dissolved in 1976 it provided a way for women to exhibit their art work. The first exhibition of the club was held in Paris in 1900, and another at the Grafton Galleries in London in the same year. Members of the club included Elisabeth Frink, Gwen John and Orovida Pissarro. History The Paris International Art Club was founded in Paris in 1900, and changed its name to the Women's International Art Club in the same year. The first exhibition of the club was held at the Grafton Galleries in Bond Street, London, in 1900, and was followed by a second show at the same gallery in March and April 1901. Annual exhibitions were held in London until the club dissolved in 1976. Some smaller exhibitions were also held in other parts of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
