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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options Available.jpg "Portrait of a Negro by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-904544).jpg "Nude Young Man by William Orpen")
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.jpg "A Nude Girl Seated on a Bed by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Nude Female Figure by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Cafe Royal, London, 1912 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Nude Study by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Girl in a Blue Hat by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Cafe Royal, London, 1912 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Evelyn Herbert, Half Length by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-227832).jpg "The Eastern Gown by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Sinclair by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Male Figure Standing by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-277470).jpg "Male Nude Standing by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-18886).jpg "Night (No. 2) by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Painter: Self Portrait with Glasses by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Group portrait of the family of George Swinton by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Bridgit - A Picture of Miss Elvery Beatrice Elvery by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Sidney Dark, English writer by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Blue Hat by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Ready To Start. Self Portrait, 1917 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Chess Players by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Count John McCormack by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-53434).jpg "The Holy Well by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Mrs. St. George by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Charles Robert, 6th Earl Spencer by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Kneeling Figure of a Woman (detail) by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Mrs Hone in a Striped Dress by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099811).jpg "Study of an Old Man by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, c.1924 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Angler by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Zonnebeke by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Signing Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, June 28 1919, from Cassell")
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.jpg "The Man from Aran by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Herbert Barnard John Everett by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-951348).jpg "The Royal Cafe in London by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Roland Knoedler by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129853).jpg "Man Versus Beast, or The Fair at Neuilly by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Mrs Hone in a Striped Dress, 1912 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Gardenia, Three Quarter Length, 1915 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Otto Beit in His Study at Belgrave Square, 1913 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Lady in Black by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Night Mail, The Engineman by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Kaiser Wilhelm as the Devil, 1914 by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-239820).jpg "A Bitter Curacao by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Lewis R. Tomalin by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The First Communion - the Artist")
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.jpg "A Street Scene by William Orpen")
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 c1918 - (MeisterDrucke-161317).jpg "Lieutenant-General Sir A.W. Currie (1875-1933) by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1128936).jpg "Vera Hone and Her Dog by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129468).jpg "Portrait of Miss Simpson by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Anita, 1905 by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099794).jpg "Study of a Man and a Woman by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Francine J. M. Clark, 1921-22 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Nancy Oswald Smith, Seated Half Length, in a Red Fur-Lined Coat by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Self-portrait, c.1910 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Howitzer in Action by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Mrs. Georgina Drum by William Orpen")
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_c1913_(watercolor_over_pencil_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1132553).jpg "The Bed Painter (The Furniture Painter) by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-902545).jpg "The Studio by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-182275).jpg "Self-portrait by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Flycatcher by William Orpen")
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.jpg "In Dublin Bay: Portrait of the Artist")
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.jpg "Gardenia by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Girl in a White Dress by William Orpen")
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.jpg "At the Peace Conference, Paris by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106296).jpg "Portrait of Ida Nettleship, wife of Augustus John by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Artist by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Grace, the Artist")
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.jpg "Robert Sterling Clark by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Right Honourable G. N. Barnes, PC, 1919 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Draughtsman and His Model by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-904272).jpg "The Red Scarf by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Dead Germans in a Trench by William Orpen")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-158987).jpg "Portrait of a Youth by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Nell Gwynne Public House by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Captain Marshall Roberts, Master of the Fox Hounds by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Rt Hon. Sir Clifford Allbutt, before 1920 by William Orpen")
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_(pastel_and_black_crayon)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315704).jpg "The White Swan (Grace and Kit) by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Lady Rocksavage by William Orpen")
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.jpg "The Royal Cafe in London (detail) by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Homage to Manet by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Miss Annie Harmsworth in an Interior by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1131404).jpg "Self Portrait Looking in a Mirror by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Sergeant Murphy and Things by William Orpen")
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.jpg "A Study of a Young Man Climbing, c.1898 by William Orpen")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-904062).jpg "Lottie of Paradise Walk by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Mrs Thomas Howarth, 1926 by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Four German Prisoners by a French Village by William Orpen")
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_(1881-1953)_1899_(red_pencil_on_pap_-_(MeisterDrucke-1099884).jpg "Portrait of Albert Rothenstein by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Portrait of Miss Harmsworth by William Orpen")
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.jpg "Interior, Chelsea by William Orpen")
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.jpg "A Young Man from the West, Self Portrait, 1909 by William Orpen")
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The work of the Irish painter William Orpen is dominated by two subjects, the portrait and war paintings. In both, he achieved great popularity as an official chronicler in the service of the British government and military leadership. This already addresses an outstanding characteristic of the person and the artist. Throughout his life he was an advocate of a fervent British nationalism. Although Orpen was born in Ireland, he stands for the division of the country into a Catholic majority and a Protestant and British-oriented elite of the country. As the son of a lawyer, he was brought up in the corps spirit of a military-oriented mentality. The Irish Easter Rising of the Catholics and Irish nationalists in 1916 shook Orpen to such an extent that he left his homeland forever and never set foot on Irish soil again. As a result, his project of a cultural rebirth of Ireland based on a British identity also failed. His artistic creations during the Irish Renaissance, however, remained of considerable influence for the Irish artists of the next generation, for example Sean Keating. His teaching position at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, which he gave up in 1914, also contributed to this.
The outbreak of the First World War removed Orpen from his Irish mission and gave his nationalism an artistic goal. Orpen, after volunteering for military service in 1914, joined the War Artist Project of the British War Propaganda Offices in 1916 and devoted himself entirely to the goal of a British victory over the German Empire. An action by the artist at the beginning of the war shows here his nationalist orientation. Orpen sold empty canvases to rich citizens for the benefit of the British Red Cross and the care of war wounded, on which portraits were later to be painted. He began his artistic propaganda activities with a popular caricature with the descriptive title "Kaiser Wilhelm II as the Devil".
After first making portraits of soldiers, he travelled to the Western Front in 1917 and recorded the material battles in the trenches there. Among his most famous paintings are "Dead German soldiers in a trench" and the "Tank", a painting in which a British tank drives over German barricades and buries a trench underneath it. After the end of the war Orpen received military awards and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts. The British military leadership commanded Orpen to be the official portrait artist at the Versailles peace negotiations. Among other things, he recorded the signing of the Versailles Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors in the castle and painted it. However, the artist caused a scandal with a war painting during an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1923. Under the title "The Unknown British Soldier in France" Orpen exhibited a composition that provoked the moral sentiment of the time. Next to a coffin covered with the Union Jack, two British soldiers were placed on guard of honour with bare torso. After protests in the press and a statement from the War Department, the artist redesigned his painting.
The work of the Irish painter William Orpen is dominated by two subjects, the portrait and war paintings. In both, he achieved great popularity as an official chronicler in the service of the British government and military leadership. This already addresses an outstanding characteristic of the person and the artist. Throughout his life he was an advocate of a fervent British nationalism. Although Orpen was born in Ireland, he stands for the division of the country into a Catholic majority and a Protestant and British-oriented elite of the country. As the son of a lawyer, he was brought up in the corps spirit of a military-oriented mentality. The Irish Easter Rising of the Catholics and Irish nationalists in 1916 shook Orpen to such an extent that he left his homeland forever and never set foot on Irish soil again. As a result, his project of a cultural rebirth of Ireland based on a British identity also failed. His artistic creations during the Irish Renaissance, however, remained of considerable influence for the Irish artists of the next generation, for example Sean Keating. His teaching position at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, which he gave up in 1914, also contributed to this.
The outbreak of the First World War removed Orpen from his Irish mission and gave his nationalism an artistic goal. Orpen, after volunteering for military service in 1914, joined the War Artist Project of the British War Propaganda Offices in 1916 and devoted himself entirely to the goal of a British victory over the German Empire. An action by the artist at the beginning of the war shows here his nationalist orientation. Orpen sold empty canvases to rich citizens for the benefit of the British Red Cross and the care of war wounded, on which portraits were later to be painted. He began his artistic propaganda activities with a popular caricature with the descriptive title "Kaiser Wilhelm II as the Devil".
After first making portraits of soldiers, he travelled to the Western Front in 1917 and recorded the material battles in the trenches there. Among his most famous paintings are "Dead German soldiers in a trench" and the "Tank", a painting in which a British tank drives over German barricades and buries a trench underneath it. After the end of the war Orpen received military awards and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts. The British military leadership commanded Orpen to be the official portrait artist at the Versailles peace negotiations. Among other things, he recorded the signing of the Versailles Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors in the castle and painted it. However, the artist caused a scandal with a war painting during an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1923. Under the title "The Unknown British Soldier in France" Orpen exhibited a composition that provoked the moral sentiment of the time. Next to a coffin covered with the Union Jack, two British soldiers were placed on guard of honour with bare torso. After protests in the press and a statement from the War Department, the artist redesigned his painting.
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.jpg "Grace reading at Howth Bay by William Orpen")
.jpg "Sunlight by William Orpen")
.jpg "Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Green Dress by William Orpen")
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