1906. Given John's limited income and the growing family, Nettleship eventually gave up painting to take care of the children and the housework. Although she found this wearisome and considered leaving John, she did not live long enough to do so. She died of puerperal fever in Paris in 1907 after the birth of her fifth son, Henry. Her mother arranged her cremation at the Père Lachaise Cemetery and took her ashes and three eldest children back to London with her. John remained with Dorelia after Nettleship's death, and they brought up Nettleship's children. Despite the fact that Nettleship was John's wife, housekeeper, and the mother of five of his children, there is not a single mention of Nettleship in Chiaroscuro, John's 1952 memoir. The Good Bohemian, an edition of Nettleship's letters, was published in 2017; it was edited by John's granddaughter Rebecca John and John's biographer Michael Holroyd. References Further reading Michael Holroyd, ‘John, Augustus Edwin (1878–1961)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 6 June 2014. (Requires subscription) J. S. Cotton, ‘Nettleship, John Trivett (1841–1902)’, rev. Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 accessed 6 June 2014. (Requires subscription) External links Portrait of Ida Nettleship by Augustus John, c.1901, National Museum of Wales 1877 births 1907 deaths 19th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Artists from London Académie Carmen alumni Deaths in childbirth Hinton family John family People from Hampstead