Brilliant Destiny Adrian Stokes

Adrian Stokes

and ice – was depicted and is shared across these northern landscapes

offers glimpses of the city of the future – of what we might be able to achieve in the next 50 or 60 years

reconsiders his life

Brilliant Destiny Adrian StokesConsidered 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 Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 The age of Augustus John was dawning, and Wyndham Lewis would dub the ten years leading up to 1914 the Augustan decade'. Handsome, unconventional and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian spirit, John was the man almost