Marriage James Bolivar Manson



lucien pissarro reading j.b. manson, est. 1913


in 1903, manson left bank job, hanging silk hat on pole , encouraging colleagues aim stones @ it. married laugher , moved latin quarter in paris, renting room £1 month , economising in shared studio charles polowetski, bernard gussow , jacob epstein, became lifelong friend , whom studied @ académie julian, still dominated impressionists enemy, adolphe bouguereau; jean-paul laurens tutored.


after year, mansons returned london , daughter mary born, followed 2 years later jean. lived in top 2 floors of 184 adelaide road, hampstead, wife gave music lessons @ front , manson set studio @ rear, working out family s tight budget on kitchen wall displeasure. in 1908 moved small house @ 98 hampstead way, stayed 30 years. lilian succeeded bernard shaw s mother music director @ north london collegiate school girls; in 1910 times took notice of revival of purcell s dido , aneas, manson designed , helped make costumes. in 1910 also, became member , secretary of camden town group.








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