Dominick Elwes
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Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes (24 August 1931 – 5 September 1975) was an English portrait painter whose much publicised elopement with an heiress in 1957 created an international scandal.
Early life
Elwes (pronounced "El-wez") was born on 24 August 1931 at
Elwes was descended from the Roman Catholic Cary-Elwes (sometimes known simply as Elwes) family, which includes such noted British prelates, priests and monks as abbot
Elopement
At age 26, Dominick Elwes met and wished to marry 19-year-old shipping heiress
On 27 November 1957, Geoffrey Kennedy obtained a restraining order against Elwes from Justice Sir Ronald Roxburgh, barring the couple from marrying.[3][4] The High Court Tipstaff was not authorised, however, to apprehend Elwes anywhere outside England or Wales.[5] After initially attempting to marry in Scotland while being pursued by the press, Elwes and Kennedy eloped to Havana, Cuba, where they married in a civil ceremony on 27 January 1958 as guests of American mobster Meyer Lansky, who provided accommodation for them at his hotel, the Habana Riviera.[6][7]
When
Career
In January 1960 Elwes became the assistant editor of Lilliput Magazine until its closure in July of that same year.[13] From 1960 to 1962, he was the Company Director of Dome Press where he began the newsweekly Topic Magazine as editorial director, along with William Rees-Davies and Maurice Macmillan. While at Topic, Elwes discovered and hired a then unknown art student to be a graphic artist for the magazine, Ridley Scott, who went on to become a famous director. In 1963, together with Nicholas Luard, he published and subsequently became the director of Design Yearbook, which developed into the book-packaging firm November Books.[14] The company's clients included Thames & Hudson, a publisher of books on art, architecture, design and visual culture. In 1964, he co-wrote a book with Luard, Refer to Drawer: Being a Penetrating Survey of a Shameful National Practice – Hustling, which included illustrations by cartoonist John Glashan. Elwes subsequently became a member of the National Union of Journalists.
Following in his father's footsteps Elwes then became a portrait painter, painting many of London's
Death
Elwes died by suicide at 1 Stewart's Grove,
Artworks
- 1969 – Portrait of John Aspinall
- 1970 – Portrait of Min Aspinall & Mushie
- 1971 – Portrait of Sir Vivyan (or Vyvian) Edward Naylor-Leyland, 3rd Baronet
- 1972 – Portrait of Lord Lucan[18]
Bibliography
- Refer to Drawer: Being a Penetrating Survey of a Shameful National Practice – Hustling. With Nicholas Luard. London: Arthur Barker, 1964.
See also
External links
- The Independent Obituary of Nicholas Luard
- The Independent Obituary of Philip Jebb
- The New Statesman
References
- ^ "Interview" (PDF). carolinephillips.net.
- ISBN 978-0-19-826899-4.
- ^ San Antonio Light (11 December 1957, p. 9)
- ^ Gossip: a history of high society, 1920–1970, p. 198, by Andrew Barrow
- ^ "Mr. Dominic Elwes. Order by Roxburgh, J. for return to England from Scotland of Miss Tessa Kennedy". Nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ a b "Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: User Home Page Book: Cary Elwes: Ahnentafel Report of (Ivan Simon) Cary\Elwes\". Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
- ^ "The Tessa Kennedy Collection at Christie's". Homes and Property. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ The New York Times (1 April 1958, p. 2)
- ^ The New York Times, 2 April 1958, p. 63.
- ^ "The Glasgow Herald – Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
- ^ "The Catalogue: Full Details". The National Archives. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ a b Roger Wilkes (9 September 2000). "Inside story: Stewart's Grove". The Telegraph.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Nicholas Luard obituary". The Independent. London. 28 May 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ Louis Jebb. "Philip Jebb Architect". Philipjebb.com. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ Jebb, Louis (13 April 1995). "OBITUARY: Philip Jebb". The Independent. London.
- ^ "Britt ekland". 8 July 2014.
- ^ Elwes, Dominic (1972). "Portrait of Lord Lucan". ladylucan.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.