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c. 1900
 
   
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian      
Augustus John, by William Orpen, c.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1901
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow        
1902
 
    
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow       
1902
 
    
Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia       
1902
 
   
The English painter G.F. Watts is made a founding member of the Order of Merit      
Watts Hope (detail) 1886
Tate Britain

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1903
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston        
1903
 
     
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard        
1905
 
   
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London      
Jacob and the Angel Epstein, 1941
Tate Britain
c. 1905
 
     
The Bloomsbury Group gathers for informal evenings at the family home of Virginia and Vanessa Stephens (later Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell)        
1905
 
    
The designer Edward Gordon Craig publishes a theatrical manifesto, The Art of the Theatre