Augustus John’s peace conference portraits: from the archive, 2 March 1920

Augustus John offers fine sketches of world leaders but it is the portraits of women that will captivate the publicLondon, Monday.
One of the many piquant circumstances of the Peace Conference in Paris was that we were represented there by two official artists, who must have seemed to our allies as unlike the English artist of fact and fiction in the past as Mr. Lloyd George is unlike Lord Salisbury. Sir William Orpen, an Irishman of mocking brilliance, has given us portraits, already exhibite