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 :. | The Mirror | German Sick,Captured at Messines,in a Canadian Hospital | A Bloomsbury Family | The Three musketeers | The English Nude | Related Artists: John Kelimeier1787-1821 Alexander Theobald Van LaerAlexander Theobald Van Laer (1857-1920) was an American painter, born at Auburn, New York.
He studied at the Art Students League of New York Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le BrunFrench Neoclassical Painter, 1755-1842
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