As a preternaturally gifted student at the Slade School of Art (where he studied with his sister Gwen), at the turn of the 20th century, Augustus was hyperbolically acclaimed by his teachers as another Raphael or Michelangelo. During his early career he shouldered the burden of such expectations with considerable bravado. But after promising beginnings he subsided into a rather dull middle age, as a painter of conventional, albeit.... http://artistandstudio.tumblr.com/tagged/spa/page/33