William Newenham Montague Orpen

Style: Romanticism;

Place: Stillorgan

Born: 1878

Death: 1931

Biography:

Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931), was an Irish artist who worked mainly 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. During Worl...