Meanwhile his sister Gwen was working in obscurity in Paris. In many ways theirs is the story of the tortoise and the hare.

A Van Gogh self ... portrait. Head of a Peasant Woman was acquired by one of the early UK collectors of Van Gogh, Evelyn Fleming, who bought it with the encouragement of the artist Augustus ...

Augustus Edwin John was a Welsh artist renowned for his portraits and portraits. Born in 1878 in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, he was influenced by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. He studied at the Slade ...

This chart shows whether Augustus Edwin John’s total sales are going up, and if so, whether this is because more artworks by the artist have been offered and sold or because more high-value artworks ...

Vincent Van Gogh painted three dozen self-portraits in just 10 years ... the Welsh painter Augustus John. She couldn’t have known that she was purchasing two Van Goghs for the price of one.

Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill all had their portraits painted by John. Augustus had become one of the most famous British artists of the day, his talent compared to Michelangelo ...