William Orpen

1878–1931 · Ireland

Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits. Wikipedia

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Works

“The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28 June 1919”, 1919 — Imperial War Museums
“To the Unknown British Soldier in France”, 1927 — Imperial War Museum London
“A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay”, 1919 — Imperial War Museums
“Dead Germans in a Trench”, 1918 — Imperial War Museum London
“Zonnebeke”, 1918 — Tate
“Major J B McCudden, VC, DSO, MC, MM”, 1918 — Imperial War Museums
“Woodrow Wilson”, 1919 — White House
“Lieut A. P. F. Rhys Davids, DSO, MC (1897–1917)”, 1917 — Imperial War Museums
“Le Chef de l’Hôtel Chatham”, 1921 — Royal Academy of Arts
“Self Portrait”, 1917 — Imperial War Museums
“Self-Portrait”, 1910 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Café Royal in London”, 1912 — Musée d'Orsay
“Evelyn Marshall Field (Mrs. Marshall Field III)”, 1921 — Yale Center for British Art
“Paul Mellon”, 1924 — Yale Center for British Art
“George Allardice, 1st Baron Riddell of Walton Heath, 1865 - 1934. Newspaper prorietor and diarist”, 1919 — National Galleries of Scotland
“A Bloomsbury Family”, 1907 — National Galleries of Scotland
“My Work Room, Cassel”, 1917 — Imperial War Museums
“Night”, 1907 — National Gallery of Victoria
“Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs”, 1914
“The Right Hon. Louis Botha”, 1917 — National Gallery of Victoria
“Summer Afternoon (Artist in his Studio with a Model)”, 1913 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“William Ferguson Massey”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“John Andrew Hamilton, Viscount Sumner”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“Sir Joseph George Ward, 1st Bt”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“The Holy Well”, 1916 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Dead Ptarmigan (a Self-Portrait)”, 1909 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Wash House”, 1905 — National Gallery of Ireland
“The Rt Hon. Sir Clifford Allbutt”, 1919 — Fitzwilliam Museum
“Self-portrait”, 1924 — Fitzwilliam Museum
“David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, 1871 - 1936. Admiral”, 1919 — National Galleries of Scotland
“Augustus John”, 1899–1900 — National Portrait Gallery
“George Charles Beresford”, 1903 — National Portrait Gallery
“The Selecting Jury of the New English Art Club, 1909”, 1909 — National Portrait Gallery
“William Orpen”, 1910 — National Portrait Gallery
“Winston Churchill”, 1916 — National Portrait Gallery
“Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery
“Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby”, 1919 — National Portrait Gallery