Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who mainly worked in London. Orpen was a...
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operator, (cousin of William Orpen) Arthur Orpen Herbert (1831–1890), railway commissioner Bea Orpen (1913–1980), Irish painter Charles Orpen (1791–1856), Irish...
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Metropolitan School of Art, where she studied under the Irish artist William Orpen. Orpen regarded Gifford as one of his most talented pupils. He often sketched...
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son of Dr. John Herbert Orpen (1805–1888) and Ellen Susanna Gertude Richards (?–1855) and a second cousin of Sir William Orpen. He married his first cousin...
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The traditional chef's uniform (Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham, Paris, by William Orpen, painted ca. 1921)...
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other artists to France including Eric Kennington, William Orpen, Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson and William Rothenstein. John Lavery was recruited to paint...
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The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors (category Paintings by William Orpen)
oil-on-canvas painting by Irish artist William Orpen, completed in 1919. It was one of the paintings commissioned from Orpen to commemorate the Peace Conference...
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In 1919, the Irish portrait painter, William Orpen became the official artist of the Paris Peace Conference. Orpen bought a Rolls-Royce car and hired Grover-Williams...
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Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham, Paris (c. 1921), oil on canvas by William Orpen...
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seventeen portraits of participants at the Versailles Conference by Sir William Orpen, amongst whom were Woodrow Wilson and George Barnes. At the height of...
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European balance of power.[failed verification] British official artists William Orpen and Augustus John were present at the Conference. World's End (1940)...
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Sir William Orpen Caricature of Rich with Orpen on his knee by Sir William Orpen 1912 Group Portrait of the Café Royal Set by Sir William Orpen with...
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also features in the backdrop of multiple paintings by Irish artist William Orpen (1878-1931) and by American artist James Whistler. Howth Head is the...
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The family of George Swinton by William Orpen...
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Dead Germans in a Trench (category Paintings by William Orpen)
by Irish artist William Orpen, made during the First World War. It was inspired by the battlefield of the Battle of the Somme that Orpen had visited in...
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Birmingham and a Cabinet minister. His mother was Florence Kenrick, a cousin of William Kenrick MP; she died when he was a small boy. Joseph Chamberlain had had...
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Painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919 (National Portrait Gallery, London)...
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Valois, Samuel Beckett (also a Nobel prize-winner) and the artist Sir William Orpen came from the same social background. Chris de Burgh and the rock concert...
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tradition of painting emerged, including such figures as John Butler Yeats, William Orpen, Jack Yeats and Louis le Brocquy. Contemporary Irish visual artists...
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their limousine and crashed. William Greer, chauffeur to John F. Kennedy William Grover-Williams, chauffeur to William Orpen Leopold Lojka, chauffeur to...
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former secretary. Beresford was a close friend of Augustus John and Sir William Orpen, another Irishman – they produced a number of images of each other....
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with James McNeill Whistler and was clearly influenced by him. Like William Orpen, Lavery was appointed an official artist in the First World War. Ill...
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Daniel Maclise, John Lavery, William Orpen (both these War Artists in WWI), John Butler Yeats (father of Jack and William Butler), Henry Jones Thaddeus...
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German Empire, combining Prussia and the surrounding German states under William I, was formally proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors on 18 January 1871. The...
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services to First World War remembrance. William Orpen: Mines and the Bapaume Road, La Boisselle (Art.IWMART2962) Orpen: The Great Mine, La Boisselle (Art.IWMART2379)...
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Tolkien's second great-grandfather. In 1792, John Benjamin Tolkien and William Gravell took over the Erdley Norton manufacture in London, which from then...
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Sinclair, who claimed that he and his recently deceased twin brother, William Sinclair, had been libeled by the publication. The two men did not appear...
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Sterling Clark William Orpen: Portrait of Robert Sterling Clark, (c. 1921-1922) Born (1877-06-25)June 25, 1877 Cooperstown, New York, US Died December...
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William Ferguson Massey PC (26 March 1856 – 10 May 1925) was a politician who served as the 19th prime minister of New Zealand from May 1912 to May 1925...
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of Art and Design) where William Orpen (1878–1931) taught painting and later used Beatrice as a model. Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts...
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