Much of the art that Spare produced in what the biographer Phil Blake called " the Grant period " reflected Spare's interest in tribal art, which both Grant and Spare collected.

Spare's esoteric legacy was largely maintained by his friend, the Thelemite author Kenneth Grant in the latter part of the 20th century, and his beliefs regarding sigils provided a key influence on the chaos magic movement and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.

The Spare's first child to survive was John Newton Spare, born in 1882, with William Herbert Spare following in 1883 and then Susan Ann Spare in 1885.

His father then submitted two of Spare's drawings to the Royal Academy, one of which, a design for a bookplate, was accepted for exhibition at that year's prestigious summer exhibition.

One of those attracted to Spare's work was Aleister Crowley ( 1875 – 1947 ), an occultist who had founded the religion of Thelema in 1904, taking as its basis a new holy text known as The Book of the Law.

The actual nature of Spare's sexuality at the time remains debated ; his friend Frank Brangwyn would later claim that he was " strongly " homosexual but had suppressed these leanings.

" The book sold poorly, and received a mixed review from the Times Literary Supplement, which while accepting Spare's " technical mastery ", was more critical of much of the content.

Surrealism took an interest in automatism and the unconscious, just like Spare's work, and although he did not think highly of the surrealists, he was often described at the time as a British forerunner of the surrealist movement ; indeed, the reporter Hubert Nicholson ran a story on him titled " Father of Surrealism – He's a Cockney !".

In the ensuing Blitz of London by the German Luftwaffe, Spare's flat and all the artwork in it was destroyed by a bomb on 10 May 1941, leaving him homeless.

One of those who had seen the show was publisher Michael Hall, and impressed by Spare's work, he commissioned him to help provide illustrations for his new periodical, The London Mystery Magazine.

Rushing to see him at his hospital bed, it was here that Spare's two dearest friends, Kenneth Grant and Frank Letchford, met one another for the first time.

According to one author, Spare's magical rationale was as follows, " If the psyche represses certain impulses, desires, fears, and so on, and these then have the power to become so effective that they can mold or even determine entirely the entire conscious personality of a person right down to the most subtle detail, this means nothing more than the fact that through repression (" forgetting ") many impulses, desires, etc.

In Spare's worldview, the " soul " was actually the continuing influence of " the ancestral animals " that humans had evolved from.

In addition to Spare's work, this experimentation was the result of many factors, including the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, the wide publication of information on magic by magicians such as Aleister Crowley and Israel Regardie, the influence of Discordianism and Robert Anton Wilson, and the popularizing of magic by Wicca.

The family moved frequently as Spare's jobs moved, and the only place whose name Head could later recall from her early years was Searchlight, Nevada.

Spare's philosophy of the Kia almost certainly influenced the " non-dual gnosis " which is a key element in Chumbley's system, although the similar " doctrine of the void " ( Shunyavata ), a foundation concept of Tantrism, is also likely to have affected Chumbley's work through the Uttara Kaula Sampradaya, of which he claimed to be an initiate.

In The Azoëtia Chumbley presents " Will, Desire, Belief " as a threefold unity operating in sorcery ; this is ultimately derived from Spare's work, although the primary textual source is Grant.

The cover graphics feature Austin Osman Spare's General Allegory and other illustrations from his Automatic Drawings and Book Of Satyrs.

Spare's art once more began to receive attention in the 1970s, due to a renewed interest in art nouveau in Britain, with several retrospective exhibitions being held in London.

Detail of a drawing from one of Spare's sketchbooks.

Two visitors to Powell's, Sir William Blake Richmond and FH Richmond RBA, came across some of Spare's drawings, and impressed, they recommended him for a scholarship to the Royal College of Art ( RCA ) in South Kensington.

Proud of his son's achievement, Spare's father would later inquire as to whether the publisher John Lane of Bodley Head would be interested in re-printing A Book of Satyrs, leading to the release of an expanded second edition in 1909.

The World commented that " his inventive faculty is stupendous and terrifying in its creative flow of impossible horrors ", while The Observer noted that " Mr. Spare's art is abnormal, unhealthy, wildly fantastic and unintelligible ".

Here, they became neighbours to Spare's old friend Sylvia Pankhurst, with Spare also befriending several local Jews, reading works of Jewish literature such as the Zohar and The Song of Solomon in order to impress them.

Edited and introduced by Frederick Carter, the book once more dealt with Spare's mystical ideas, continuing many of the themes explored in The Book of Pleasure.

Influenced by the work of El Greco, they were exhibited at the Godfrey Phillips Galleries in St James's, Central London in November 1930, an exhibit that proved to be Spare's last in London's West End.

Spare's work is remarkable for its variety, including paintings, a vast number of drawings, work with pastel, a few etchings, published books combining text with imagery, and even bizarre bookplates.

An anonymous review of The Book of Satyrs published in December 1909, which must have appeared around the time of Spare's 23rd birthday, is by turns condescending and grudgingly respectful, " Mr. Spare's work is evidently that of young man of talent.

Our critic ends his review with the observation that Spare's " drawing is often more shapeless and confused than we trust it will be when he has assimilated better the excellent influences upon which he has formed his style.

From 1512, Maximilian I became Dürer's major patron.

They owed little directly to the queen, who was never a major patron of the arts.

Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great, and her husband Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, were buried in the priory, and their nephew, King Æthelstan, was a major patron of Oswald's cult.

By the time he ascended the throne in 1515, the Renaissance had arrived in France, and Francis became a major patron of the arts.

He immediately became a major patron to former Edwardian clerics and returning exiles.

As noted by The New York Times, Fonda was a " major patron " of the VVAW.

In 1926 and 1937, the art dealer and patron Joseph Duveen paid for two major expansions of the gallery building.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

Malouf Abraham, Jr., is a retired allergist from Canadian and a major patron of the arts.

As a result of a plea by his patron General Philip Sheridan, Custer was also appointed brevet major general.

Like earlier Durham writers, Symeon finds historical continuity between the major phases of the community's development in the constant presence of their patron, Saint Cuthbert.

The soldier and politician Lord Moira was a major early patron of Moore.

Following the death of his major patron, Alfonso ( 1495 ), in 1499 he received his villa " Mergellina " near Naples from Frederick IV, but when Frederick capitulated to France and Aragon, he followed him into exile in France in 1501, whence he returned to Mergellina after Frederick's death at Tours ( 1504 ).

An emperor might also adopt a major deity as his personal patron or tutelary, as Augustus did Apollo.

Two major supporters of Spare died around this time, in the form of his father in 1928, and then his primary patron Pickford Waller in 1930, although at his 1927 exhibit he did gain an important new patron and friend in the form of journalist Hannen Swaffer.

Between these major events, there are numerous patron saint ’ s days for all the neighborhoods and other communities of the two municipalities of San Pedro and San Andrés.

* English literature, drama, and education lose a major patron and benefactor when William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke and Lord Chamberlain of England, dies on April 10.

This claim is provisionally accepted by the major institutions of galactic civilization even as it is hotly contested by a number of senior patron races.

Yoshimitsu also played a major role in the genesis of Noh theatre, as the patron of Zeami Motokiyo, the actor considered to be Noh's founder.

The Flemish painter would become one of his major influences, together with the Venetian masters he would later study in the collection of his patron and friend, the banker Pierre Crozat.

The Qianlong Emperor was a major patron of the arts, seeing himself as an important " preserver and restorer " of Chinese culture.

At the same time, Boril was unable to take military action against Strez and his Serbian patron, as he had suffered a major defeat at the hands of the Latins at Plovdiv.

The twelve major gods were presented as six gender-balanced pairs, and Roman religion departed from Indo-European tradition in installing two goddesses in its supreme triad of patron deities, Juno and Minerva along with Jupiter.