Not on display
- Artist
- Augustus John OM 1878–1961
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 457 x 381 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
- Reference
- N05292
Catalogue entry
N05292 HEAD OF ROMILLY, THE ARTIST'S SON c.
1924
Inscr. ‘John’ t.l.
Canvas, 18×15 (46×38).
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941.
Coll: Sir Hugh Walpole, who most likely bought it at the New Chenil Galleries in 1926.
Exh: New Chenil Galleries, May–July 1926 (24); Hugh Walpole's Collection, French Gallery, May–June 1937 (39); Arts Council tour, 1948–9 (57).
Romilly is the first son of the artist's second marriage. The same son at a younger age appears in N05297.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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