Augustus Edwin John RA, OM, RCA
Born 4 January 1878
Died 31 October 1961
Active: 1921 - 1940
Country of birth and death: Wales
Painter, printmaker, etcher
Born in Tenby
Wealth at death: £90,788 3s. 1d.
Probate date: 14 February 1961
Institutional and Business Connections
Adjudicated on a panel at British Artists' Exhibitions
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
22 April 1922 - 5 December 1928
Elected RA in 1928.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
5 December 1928 - 23 April 1938
Resigned in 1938.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
15 February 1940 - 1 January 1954
Re-elected in 1940 after earlier resignation, 'as an exception to Sect.V, CI of the Laws but with Royal Approval and voted for by the majority of members' [RA Dictionary of Membership, p.66]. Then became Senoir RA until his death in 1961.
Resigned from Royal Academy of Arts
23 April 1938 - 15 February 1940
Re-elected in 1940.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of Charles de Sousy Ricketts
March 1922
For RA.
Nominator of Loris Rey
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominator of Karin Margareta Jonzen
March 1957
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Sources
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists
1927
p. 2
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Michael Holroyd, ‘John, Augustus Edwin (1878–1961)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34196, accessed 27 May 2009]
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
p.77.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.149, p.205.
Citing this record
'Augustus Edwin John RA, OM, RCA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1215084918, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
