*pencil, on paper*
Inglis Sheldon-Williams
Augustus John as a Student at the Slade, 1897
A rare view of a beardless Augustus John. In the summer of 1897, John was involved in a diving accident, the scars of which he hid with a velvet cap and by growing a beard. This portrait was likely completed before that summer incident.
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