The St John's Wood Clique was a group of Victorian artists who mostly lived in the St John's Wood

St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district of north-west London, England, in the City of Westminster, and at the north-west end of Regent's Park. It is approximately 2.5 miles north-west of Charing Cross. Once part of the Great Middlesex Forest, it was later owned by the Knights of St John of Jerusalem...

 area of London. Their ideas were broadly similar to an earlier group also called The Clique

The Clique

The Clique was a group of English artists formed by Richard Dadd in the late 1830s. Other members were Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, William Powell Frith, Henry Nelson O'Neil, John Phillip and Edward Matthew Ward....

. The principal members of the group were Philip Hermogenes Calderon

Philip Calderon

Philip Hermogenes Calderon was an English painter of French birth and Spanish ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.Calderon was born in Poitiers, France...

, George Dunlop Leslie

George Dunlop Leslie

George Dunlop Leslie RA was an English genre painter, author and illustrator.-Life and work:Leslie was born in London, the son of notable genre painter Charles Robert Leslie, R.A. His uncle Robert Leslie was a marine artist. He studied art first at "Cary's art academy", then from 1854 at the...

, Henry Stacy Marks

Henry Stacy Marks

Henry Stacy Marks was an English artist who took a particular interest in painting birds.-Life:Henry Stacy Marks was born in London as the fourth child of John Isaac Marks and Elizabeth née Pally. His father was a solicitor who later became a coach builder...

, George Adolphus Storey

George Adolphus Storey

George Adolphus Storey RA was an English portrait painter, genre painter and illustrator.Storey was born in London, but educated in Paris. When he returned to London, he worked briefly for an architect before studying under J. M. Leigh and J.L. Dulong. Though not a pupil he was also encouraged by...

, David Wilkie Wynfield

David Wilkie Wynfield

David Wilkie Wynfield was a British painter and photographer.Wynfield was distantly related to the Scottish artist David Wilkie, after whom he was named. Born in India, he was originally intended by his family for the priesthood, but instead chose art as a profession...

, John Evan Hodgson and William Frederick Yeames

William Frederick Yeames

William Frederick Yeames was a British painter best known for his oil-on-canvas problem picture And When Did You Last See Your Father?, which depicts the son of a Royalist being questioned by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.-Biography:Yeames was born in Taganrog, Russia, the son of a...

. According to Graham Reynolds the group was notable for its love of practical jokes.

Wynfield took photographs of all the members in fancy dress, along with other notable associates such as Millais and Manet

Manet

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. Most of the members also belonged to the Artists Rifles.