George Owen Wynne Apperley

Apperley was born at Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight, in 1884.[1][2] He trained briefly at the Herkomer School in Bushey, Hertfordshire, but was mostly self-taught.[3] He moved to Spain in 1917,[4] abandoning his British wife, Hilda Pope, and family,[5] and established himself in a carmen in the Albaicín district of Granada.[6] He became friends with many of the artists resident in the city,[lower-alpha 1] but was forced to leave in 1932 when his conservative political stance regarding the Second Spanish Republic led to the bombing of his house.[7] He moved with his second family, his muse and later wife, Enriqueta Contreras and their two sons, to Tangier, Morocco, where he died in 1960.[8] He is commemorated in Granada by a statue, unveiled in 2011.[9]

Apperley first worked on Classical and mythological subjects. His moves to Spain, and subsequently Morocco, saw his focus shift to portraiture.[10] Examples of his work are held by the Victoria & Albert Museum,[lower-alpha 2] the Museo de Málaga, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Bushey Museum.[12]

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  Horses of St Mark, Venice (1905)
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  Joven bailando (c.1920)
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  Eternal Idol - Apperley's muse, lover, and second wife, Enriqueta Contreras (1931)
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  Statue commemorating Apperley in Granada (2011)

• Dizy Caso, Eduardo (1997). Les orientalistes de l'ecole espagnole (in French). Paris: ACR. ISBN 978-2-867-70106-1.
• Requesens, Cesar (2016). Secret Granada. Versailles, France: Jonglez Publishing. ISBN 978-2-361-95025-5.