Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
William Rothenstein
Standard Name: Rothenstein, William
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington
and Mark Gertler
. She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, and she also met the painter... |
Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
continued to entertain in London, hosting such guests as Ethel Smyth
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Stephen Spender
, Max Beerbohm
, Hope Mirrlees
, Djuna Barnes
, Charlie Chaplin
, the novelist Henry Green |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | This friendship led to others for DW
, for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil
, Sir William Rothenstein
, Rex Whistler
, H. A. L. Fisher |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | She sometimes drew in the studio of painter William Rothenstein
, a friend of her parents. After reading and admiring one of her poems, however, Rothenstein encouraged her to write instead of paint. Frances then... |
Friends, Associates | Frances Cornford | Among friends entertained regularly or occasionally at Conduit Head were William Rothenstein
, Eric Gill
, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
, Bertrand Russell
, and Rabindranath Tagore
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Cornford | The publication of the book was due, in part, to the influence of the painter William Rothenstein
: having read some of Cornford's poetry, he persuaded her father to have a volume of her poems... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Cornford | Cornford dedicated the book to William Rothenstein
, who by wise encouragement and discouragement . . . first helped me to find out what I really wanted to create. Cornford, Frances. Different Days. Hogarth Press, 1928. 7 |
Literary responses | Ada Leverson | Robert Ross
closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda. Leverson, Ada, and Oscar Wilde. “Reminiscences of the Author”. Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde, Duckworth, 1930, pp. 19 -49. 16 |
Timeline
1917
Britain appointed its first official war artists: Eric Kennington
, William Orpen
, and William Rothenstein
.