Augustus JOHN
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| Artist: | Augustus Edwin JOHN, OM, RA |
| Nationality: | British, 1878–1961 |
| Title: | Portrait of Casper
John |
| Medium: | Pencil drawing on paper |
| Date: | c.1909 |
| Inscription: | Signed ‘John’ lower right |
| Image Size: | 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11⅛ x 8 in) |
| Framed Size: | TBA |
| Provenance: | Private Collection |
| Additional Information: | Casper was born in 1903
at his parents' home at 18 Fitzroy Street, London,
the second of John’s five sons by his first wife, Ida (née Nettleship) |
He rose to become Admiral of the Fleet Sir Casper
John GCB. He was a pioneer of the Fleet Air Arm; Vice-Chief of Naval
Staff to the First Sea Lord, Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten
of Burma, in 1957; and subsequently First Sea Lord, 1960-1963 |
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| Price: | £6,500 |
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