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Sir William Orpen Irish
1878-1931
Sir William Orpen Location
Irish painter. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-7), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-9), there winning the composition prize of 1899 with The Play Scene from Hamlet (Houghton Hall, Norfolk). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club. From very early years he had been an impassioned student of the Old Masters, and he went to Paris with John in 1899 to see Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre). In the following years his perception of their works
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Painting ID:: 21136 The Cafe Royal (mk06)
London 1912
4' 6 1/4'' x 3' 8 3/4''(137.5 x 113.5 cm)Gift of Edmund Davis,1915 Rf 1977-278
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Painting ID:: 23443 The Cafe Royal in London (nn03)
1912
Oil on canvas 138 x 114 cm 54 1/3 x 44 7/8 in Musee d'Orsay Paris
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Painting ID:: 26443 The Nell Gwynne Public House
mk50
c.1898-1904
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Painting ID:: 26444 The Three musketeers
mk50
c.1899-1904
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Painting ID:: 26445 Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
mk50
1872-73
Glasgow Museums
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Sir William Orpen
Irish
1878-1931
Sir William Orpen Location
Irish painter. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-7), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-9), there winning the composition prize of 1899 with The Play Scene from Hamlet (Houghton Hall, Norfolk). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club. From very early years he had been an impassioned student of the Old Masters, and he went to Paris with John in 1899 to see Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre). In the following years his perception of their works
. Related Artists to Sir William Orpen: | Bouts, Aelbrecht | Luis Eugenio Melendez | Charles Landseer | Arthur Boyd Houghton | Erik Eriksson Grijs |
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