Sketch for a Portrait of Nora Brownsword

The sitter was a music student who modelled for John at Alderney Manor, and who was known to everyone as 'Brownsword'. In 1914 Nora gave birth to John's first illegitimate child, Gwyneth, who later became an artist.
(see M. Holroyd, Augustus John II The Years of Experience, London, 1975, p.50).