Editing Augustus John (section)

==Family==
[[File:Augustus John 2.jpg|thumb|Augustus John poses for the American press on board a ship.]]
On 24 January 1901, John married [[Ida Nettleship]] (1877–1907), daughter of the artist [[John Trivett Nettleship]], and a fellow student at the Slade. The couple had five sons: David John (1902&ndash;1974).,<ref name="Beeb"/> [[Caspar John]] (1903&ndash;1984), Robin John (1904&ndash;1988), Edwin John (1905&ndash;1978), and Henry John (1907&ndash;1935). Despite the fact that Nettleship was John's wife, housekeeper, and the mother of five of his children, there is not a single mention of her in ''Chiaroscuro'', his 1952 memoir. From 1905 until her death in 1907, Ida lived in Paris with John's mistress [[Dorelia McNeill|Dorothy "Dorelia" McNeill]]; a [[Bohemian style]] icon, she lived with John for the rest of their lives, having four children together, though they never married.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n13/rosemary-hill/one-s-self-washed-drawers|title=Rosemary Hill · One's Self-Washed Drawers: Ida John · LRB 28 June 2017|first=Rosemary|last=Hill|date=28 June 2017|journal=London Review of Books|volume=39|issue=13}}</ref> One of his sons (by his wife Ida) was the prominent British Admiral and [[First Sea Lord]] Sir [[Caspar John]]. His daughter with Dorelia, [[Vivien John]] (1915–1994), was a notable painter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-vivien-john-1438836.html|title=Obituary: Vivien John|date=27 May 1994|website=The Independent}}</ref>

By [[Ian Fleming]]'s widowed mother, [[Evelyn Ste Croix Fleming]], {{née}} Rose, he had a daughter, [[Amaryllis Fleming]] (1925–1999), who became a noted cellist. Another of his sons, by [[Mavis Wheeler|Mavis de Vere Cole]], wife of the prankster [[Horace de Vere Cole]], is the television director [[Tristan de Vere Cole]]. His son Romilly (1906–1986) was in the RAF, briefly a civil servant, then a poet, author and an amateur physicist. Poppet (1912–1997), John's daughter by Dorothy, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988). Willem Pol's daughter [[Talitha Getty|Talitha]] (1940–1971) by an earlier marriage (i.e. step-granddaughter of both Augustus and Dorothy), a fashion icon of 1960s [[Swinging London|London]], married [[John Paul Getty Jr.]] His daughter [[Gwyneth Johnstone]] (1915–2010), by musician Nora Brownsword, was an artist.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/06/gwyneth-johnstone-obituary Gwyneth Johnstone obituary] ([[The Guardian]], 6 January 2011).</ref> Augustus John's promiscuity gave rise to rumours that he had fathered as many as 100 children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/last-illegitimate-son-augustus-john-2033921|title=Last illegitimate son of Augustus John on life with 'King of Bohemia'|first=Darren|last=Devine|date=9 March 2012|website=walesonline}}</ref>

In a 1977 interview, [[Caitlin Thomas]] was asked about her family's friendship with Augustus John and the rumors surrounding his promiscuity. When asked if John "pounced on" her, she replied, "Oh yes, constantly, and on his daughters."<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://vimeo.com/465553412|title=1977 interview with Caitlin Thomas (widow of Dylan Thomas)}}</ref>