biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1876–1939)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SW Wales, UK, the elder sister of Augustus John. She studied at the Slade School, London, before moving to Paris (1904), where she worked as an artist's model, becoming Rodin's mistress c.1906. After converting to Roman Catholicism in 1913 she lived at Meudon, where she became increasingly religious and reclusive. She exhibited with the New English Art Club (1900–11), and her work was included in the Armory Show of 1913. |
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