John Minton (artist)

John Minton
Self-portrait c.1953
Born	(1917-12-25)25 December 1917 Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, England
Died	20 January 1957(1957-01-20) (aged 39) Chelsea, London, England
Education	St John's Wood School of Art
Known for	Painting, illustration

Francis John Minton (25 December 1917 – 20 January 1957) was an English painter, illustrator, stage designer and teacher. After studying in France, he became a teacher in London, and at the same time maintained a consistently large output of works. In addition to landscapes, portraits and other paintings, some of them on an unusually large scale, he built up a reputation as an illustrator of books.

In the mid-1950s, Minton found himself out of sympathy with the abstract trend that was then becoming fashionable, and felt increasingly sidelined. He suffered psychological problems, self-medicated with alcohol, and in 1957 died by suicide.