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 :. | A Breezy Day,Howth | The Poet | The English Nude | Captain John Shawe-Taylor | The Man from the West:Sean Keating | Related Artists: WILDENS, JanFlemish Baroque Era Painter, 1586-1653
Flemish painter and draughtsman, active also in Italy. He was an important and proficient landscape painter who worked with Rubens and other masters in Antwerp. BASSA, Arnaldo(c. 1350-1400) Wenceslaus WerlinWenceslaus Werlin (died 1780) was an Austrian painter.
Werlin specialized in portraits. He died in Florence in 1780.
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