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 Related Paintings of Sir William Orpen :. | A Mere Fracture | Grace Orpen | Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,KT.GCB.GCVO,KCIE,Comander-in-Chief,France | Homage to Manet | A Peace Conference at the Zuai d Orsay | Related Artists: Ellen Day Hale1855-1940
was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, her family was involved in the arts, her father Edward Everett Hale was an author, her great-aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. She studied art under Boston painter William Morris Hunt and helped raise her 7 brothers and sisters. Later she studied in at the Academie Julien in Paris. James Edward ButtersworthAmerican Painter, 1817-1894 Thomas Le Clear1818-1882
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