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John de Burgh Perceval AO (1 February 1923 – 15 October 2000) was a well-known Australian artist. Perceval was the last surviving member of a group known as the Angry Penguins who redefined Australian art in the 1940s.
John Thomas Perceval (14 February 1803 – 28 February 1876) was a British army officer who was confined in lunatic asylums for three years and spent the rest of his life campaigning for reform of the lunacy laws and for better treatment of asylum inmates.
John Perceval, 2nd earl of Egmont was an eccentric British politician and pamphleteer, a confidant of George III. Perceval sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1731 to 1748, when he succeeded to his father’s earldom in the Irish peerage. His interests, however, were in British politics.
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting and drawing. He came to know the Boyd family and the Angry Penguins circle of Heide Park and they were the greatest influence on his developing style.
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS (12 July 1683 – 1 May 1748), known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo - Irish politician.
John Perceval, a major retrospective exhibition, was held at Albert Hall, Canberra in 1966 and Margaret Plant’s monograph John Perceval, was published in 1971. However, despite his rising success, Perceval was tackling alcoholism and other serious problems.
John Perceval. Alongside Arthur Boyd, Joy Hester, Sidney Nolan and Albert Tucker, John Perceval dominated the art scene in Melbourne in the 1940s, recognised for his expressive figurative paintings, revealing a sense of alienation and detachment from Australian society - Boy with Cat, 1943 is a key work from this period. Perceval was largely ...
