Editing David Jones (painter) (section)

===Early life===
Jones was born at Arabin Road, [[Brockley]], Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road. His father, James Jones, was born in [[Flintshire]] in north Wales, to a Welsh-speaking family, but he was discouraged from speaking Welsh by his father, who believed that habitual use of the language might hold his child back in a career. James Jones moved to London to work as a printer's overseer for the ''Christian Herald'' Press. He met and married Alice Bradshaw, a Londoner, and they had three children: Harold, who died at 21 of [[tuberculosis]], Alice and David.

Jones exhibited artistic promise at an early age, even entering drawings for exhibitions of children's artwork. He wrote that he knew from the age of six he would devote his life to art. He did not read fluently until the age of eight. From the very earliest years of his life he had already come to identify intensely with his paternal heritage: as an old man in 1971, he would write to [[Saunders Lewis]] of a 'passionate conviction that I belonged to my father's nation that I certainly felt by the time I was seven'.<ref>{{Cite journal  | title=David Jones Special Issue | journal=Agenda | volume=11:4 | date=1973 | page=90}}</ref> In 1909, at 14, he entered [[Camberwell College of Arts|Camberwell Art School]], where he studied under [[Archibald Standish Hartrick|A. S. Hartrick]], who had worked with [[Van Gogh]] and [[Gauguin]] and introduced him to the work of the [[Impressionist]]s and [[Pre-Raphaelite]]s. In addition, Jones studied literature, the subject of a mandatory one-hour weekly class at Camberwell.<ref name="Engraver"/>