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 Paintings of Sir William Orpen :. | The Valuers | The Man from the West:Sean Keating | A Peace Conference at the Zuai d Orsay | Sunlight | Major A.N.Lee in his hut ofice at Beaumerie-sur-Mer | Related Artists: Hindu painter Richard Ettinghausen believes this work to have been painted in Agra in about 1625
Gustav Adolph Henning 1797-1869 Oscar Pereira da Silva (1867-1939 ) - Painter