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Sir William Orpen Irish
1878-1931
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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:: 26481 Self-Portrait
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1912
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Painting ID:: 26482 The Vere Foster Family
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1907
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Painting ID:: 26483 The Jockey
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1909
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Painting ID:: 26484 Leading the Life in the West
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1910
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Painting ID:: 26485 The Poet
c.1914-15
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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: | Johann Gottfried Schadow | Johann-Baptist Lampi the Elder | De Winter Pharaon | John Tenniel | Charles Deas |
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