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c. 1900
 
   
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian      
Augustus John, by William Orpen, c.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1902
 
    
Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia       
1910
 
     
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art        
1910
 
   
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company      
L.S. Lowry, photograph by Ida Kar, 1954
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1911
 
    
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group       
1913
 
    
Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage       
1914
 
    
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast       
1914
 
    
Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter       
c. 1915
 
   
The Irish painter Jack Yeats develops a romantic Expressionist style, with a new interest in Celtic myth      
1919
 
    
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war