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Isbister, Horace, RA
An establishment artist: QU 76
described: AW 36
relationships with:
wife, Morwenna:
sometime his model: AW 36; CCR 185; HSH 40
bitterness between:
refused knighthood to spite: CCR 185
separated from: CCR 185
St John Clarke:
friendship:
long: AW 25; HSH 39
Members suggests homosexual: HSH 40
rivalry: CCR 184-5
style and reputation:
"the British Frans Hals": AW 36
honours:
RA: QU 77; BM 186; HSH 112
offered knighthood: CCR 184-5
death brings:
panegyrics: CCR 184
retrospective exhibition: AW 113-20; LM 36
despised by:
Barnby: AW 31, 33
Mr Deacon: BM 94, 185-6
Bob Duport: HSH 237
Templer: AW 45-6, 86
NJ: AW 113; MP 42
Quiggin: AW 86
Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson: AW 115-6
admired by Widmerpool: QU 94, 98; CCR 101
artistic similarity to St John Clarke: AW 29; CCR 101, 184-5
and prevailing fashions:
follows spirit of the age: AW 113-4
defers to clients: AW 125
remains the antithesis of "modern": AW 32; MP 42
Quiggin sees as typically capitalist: AW 60, 86, 123
Quickly acquires nostalgia value: MP 42; HSH 62-3
NJ reminded of by:
Jean's postcard: AW 220
the War Office Oliviers: MP 42, 152
models:
Morwenna: AW 36
not Mona: AW 80
specific works mentioned:
genre paintings:
"Clergyman Eating an Apple": AW 116; HSH 40
"The Old Humorists": AW 116
portraits of:
Lord Aberavon: BM 186-7; AW 116
Lady Ardglass: AW 120-1
St John Clarke: AW 25; HSH 39-40
Sir Horrocks Rusby: AW 116-7; HSH 62-3
Saltonstall: AW 115
Lord Sleaford: LM 21
Templer's father: QU 76-7; AW 45-6, 73, 86-7, 123; HSH 237
Cardinal Whelan: BM 94; AW 116
"The Art of Horace Isbister":
NJ overseeing publication of: AW 22, 25, 86, 122
continued failure to appear: AW 36, 114, 117; TK 60-1, 141
dependent on whims of St John Clarke: AW 25, 29, 31, 36, 39, 45, 60, 123-5; MP 66; TK 71, 141-2
illness: AW 25
death: AW 36
Isbister, Mrs "Morwenna"
Isbister's model and wife: AW 36
and Isbister:
models for as "Morwenna": AW 36; CCR 185; HSH 40
wife of:
bitterness between: CCR 185
separated from: CCR 185
also mentioned: AW 36; HSH 40
suggestion of lesbianism by Members: HSH 40
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