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Salaman, Michel: on AJ at Slade
32
; shares AJ’s exile in Tenby
40–1
; loans money to AJ
79
; with AJ in France
85
,
86–7
; AJ paints portrait
86
; shocked at AJ’s womanizing
87
; lectures at Chelsea Art School
139
; marries
144
,
182
; sells caravan to AJ
182
,
279
; writes to Gwen John
552
; mentioned
54
,
62
,
79
,
84
,
89
,
177
,
201
,
271
,
358

Augustus John to
49
,
56
,
68
,
75–6
,
83
,
85
,
87
,
88
,
93–4
,
97
,
98
,
115
,
116
,
118
,
119
,
125
,
140
,
166
,
182
,
184
,
196
,
199
,
259
,
396
,
547

Gwen John to
74
,
115
,
116
,
162

Ida John to
73–4
,
82
,
115
,
134

Ambrose McEvoy to
88

William Orpen to
77
,
80

Albert Rutherston to
133
,
135

Gwen Salmond to
72

Salmon, André
207

Salmond, Gwen (
later
Lady Smith): at Slade
50
,
61
; goes to Paris with Ida
70
,
71
; smuggles Gwen John into Académie Carmen
71–2
; painting in Cold Veal Street
73–4
; ‘lady superintendent’ at Chelsea Art School
139
; arranges life-drawing classes for Edna Clarke Hall
140
; liberates Matthew Smith
154
; marriage fails
552
; mentioned
89
,
118
,
163

Sampson, Amyas
101
,
289
,
451

Sampson, Anthony
451

Sampson, Honor
101
,
289
,
290
,
451

Sampson, John: influence on AJ and their friendship
100–4
,
201–2
,
280
; passion for lost languages
100
,
101
; secret love life
100–1
,
103
; admitted by gypsies as one of their own
101
,
104
; with AJ and Ida in Liverpool
106
; in Wales with AJ
126
; Dorelia writes to in Romany
131
; AJ’s portrait
137
; Ida finds him ‘2nd rate’
225
; importance to the Gypsy Lore Society
283
,
284
; rediscovers Matthew Wood
289
; bloody combat in Wales
290–1
; patriotic pride and parental anguish
451
; publication of his dictionary
451–3
; death and scattering of his ashes
548–9
; ‘great work’ kept alive
561
; mentioned
xxvi
,
xxxii
,
284
,
36
l,
395
,
560

‘The Apotheosis of Augustus John’
104

The Dialect of the Gypsies of Wales
103
,
124
,
451–2
,
453

Omar Khayyam
(Romany version)
103

Poacher’s Calendar
102

Romane Gilia
103

The Wind on the Heath
103

Augustus John to
26
,
102
,
134
,
143
,
146
,
175
,
182
,
184
,
191
,
193
,
231
,
341
,
347
,
354
,
389
,
390
,
414
,
431
,
439
,
451

Walter Raleigh to
100

Sampson, Margaret (
née
Sprunt)
101
,
106
,
141
,
289
,
451

Augustus John to
166
,
231
,
233
,
235
,
238
,
548–9

Gwen John to
95

Ida John to
123
,
138
,
142
,
174
,
191
,
193
,
194
,
196
,
215–16
,
226

Sampson, Michael
101
,
289
,
451
,
549
; John Sampson to
104
,
452

Sandon Studios Society
106
,
361

Sargent, John Singer: England’s pre-eminent portrait painter
51
; impressed by AJ’s drawings
54
; Sir William Richmond on
93
; exhibits at the NEAC
94
; AJ scorns
95
; drawing used instead of AJ’s portrait on Yeats’s
Collected Poems
245
; not impressed by AJ’s ‘The Pageant of War’
672
(n. 124); mentioned
68
,
292
,
428
,
468
,
521

Saunders, Edie
589

Saunders, Fred
589

Schepeler, Alexandra (‘Alick’): ‘strange charm’
209–10
; relationship with AJ
209
,
210–13
,
218–21
,
222
; AJ’s portraits and drawings
213–14
,
225
,
258
; Dorelia banishes
224
,
258
,
259
; death
590
; mentioned
359
Augustus John to
83
,
199
,
202–3
,
207
,
210–11
,
212
,
214
,
215
,
218–19
,
220–1
,
222
,
223
,
228
,
229
,
236
,
244
,
246
,
248
,
296
,
304
,
416
,
433

Schepeler, John Daniel
209

Schepeler, Sarah (
née
Briggs)
209

Schwabe, ‘Birdie’
422

Schweitzer, Albert: sits to AJ
593

Scobel, Emile
77

Scott, Dr Clifford
534

Scott, Hope
510
,
511

Scott, Stevenson
493

Scrutton, Hugh
293

Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition (1912)
xiv
,
327
,
328
,
331
,
335
,
336
,
348
,
349
,
350–1

Segonzac, André
345

Selborne Church, Hampshire
590

Seymour, Miranda:
Ottoline Morrell…
268

Shakespeare, Olivia: W. B. Yeats to
245
fn

Shakespeare, William
525

Hamlet
37

King John
73

King Lear
73

Sonnet CXLVI
xi

The Winter’s Tale
62

Shankland, Virginia
43

Shannon, Charles
99
,
107
,
148
,
242
,
244
,
299
,
334
,
342

Shaw, Charlotte (
née
Payne-Townshend)
410
; described by AJ
411

Shaw, G. Bernard: ‘bearded demon’
xiv
,
445
; ‘subject of a bust by Rodin’
49
; sits to AJ
410–11
; described by
411
; AJ’s portraits
208
,
411–12
,
429
,
464
; praises
The Silver Tassie
519
; ‘gorgeous thing’
528
; brought in to amuse Montgomery
559–60
; ‘too old for sittings’
593

Shelley, Lillian (model)
378
,
418

Shephard, Nicolette
see
Devas, Nicolette

Shephard, Rupert
528

Sherrington, Sir John: AJ portrait
641
(n. 49)

Shone, Richard
xxxii
,
464
,
487
,
515–16
;
Bloomshury Portraits
334

Shute, Betty
15
fn
,
404

Shute, Dale
15
fn

Shute, Muriel
see
Matthews, Muriel

Shute, Victor Lauder
15
fn

Shute, Winifred (
née
John): birth
4
,
5
; childhood
5
,
12–13
,
14
; education
13
,
18–19
; character
14–15
,
24–5
; relationship with father
23
,
24
,
25
; pairs off with Thornton
28
; giggles with Gwen
40
; shares flat with AJ and Gwen
47–8
; stays with AJ and Ida
115
; travels in Canada and America
15
fn
,
25
,
126
; difficult relationship with Thornton
161
; becomes an accomplished violinist
14
,
15
fn
; marriage and children
15
fn
,
24
,
404
,
438
; appeals to AJ not to write memoir of Gwen
573
; mentioned
xxx
,
41
,
105
,
136
,
163
,
381

Augustus John to
89
,
96
,
561–2
,
594

Ida John to
117
,
140
,
143
,
146
,
167

Sibthorp, Veronica, Dylan Thomas to
532
fn

Sickert, Robert
75

Sickert, Walter: meets AJ
66
; a member of ‘London Impressionists’
92
,
93
,
94
; on Legros
34
; on Newlyn Group
92
; respects AJ’s work
94
,
173
,
407
,
426
; clothes
121
,
592
; member of Artists’ Association
330
,
348
, and Camden Town Group
348
,
349
; mentioned
xxxii
,
202
,
329
,
331
,
351
,
419
,
563

Siena, Italy
312

Signorelli, Luca
312
,
337
,
340
,
435

Sime, Sidney
395
,
397
,
400

Simpson, F. M.
114

Sisley, Alfred
344

Sitwell, Georgia
512

Sitwell, Osbert
119
,
425–6
,
576

Sitwell, Sacheverell
512
,
568

Sitwells, the
xxvi
,
45
,
419
,
454
,
479

Slade, Charles
294
,
359

Slade, Felix
33

Slade, Jessie (
née
McNeill)
225
,
247
,
656
(n. 109)

Slade, Ursula, Dorelia McNeill to
305

Slade School of Art, London
30
,
32–6
,
38–40
,
56
,
57
,
139
,
209
,
210
,
260
,
330
,
336

Sliwinski, Jan
381

Smith, Augusta (
née
Phillips)
9

Smith, F. E.: Lord Beaverbrook to
426

Smith, Leah (AJ’s ‘Aunt Lily’)
5
,
6
,
11

Smith, Mary (
née
Thornton) (AJ’s grandmother)
9
,
10

Smith, (Sir) Matthew: liberated from nervous paralysis
154
; AJ admires his work
346–7
; in Paris with Innes
352
; helps Vivien John
537
; marriage fails
552
; AJ visits in France
589
; devastated by war
591
; he and AJ paint each other
591
; together in Chelsea
591–2
; death
591
,
592
; RA memorial show
592
; mentioned
208
,
339
,
345
,
500
,
533

Augustus John to
xxv
,
589
,
590

Smith, Lady (Matthew)
see
Salmond, Gwen

Smith, Rosina (AJ’s ‘Aunt Rose’)
5–6
,
11

Smith, Sarah Ann
9

Smith, Thomas (AJ’s grandfather)
9
,
10
,
59
,
68

Smith, Thomas (his son)
9

Smith, Zadock (AJ’s great uncle)
9

Social Credit Party
576

Society of British Artists, The
478

Society of Twelve
173–4
,
240
,
257
,
397

Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin
338

Southampton Street, London (No.
39
)
88

Spain: AJ fails to reach
270–1
; series of impressions (1922)
438–4
; AJ in Madrid
484
; AJ and Dorelia in (1954–
5
)
588–9
; author visits
xix

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