Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best British draughtsman since the Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the British ' Post-Impressionists' . Such was his importance that Wyndham Lewis called the ten years up to 1914 ' the Augustan decade' . Virginia Woolf wrote in 1921 that ' The age of Augustus John was dawning' . Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost every young British...