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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
'In Dublin Bay': Portrait of the Artist's Wife
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Sir William Orpen (1878-1931)
One of the greatest painters in the history of Irish art, Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, was a skillful and sympathetic Irish portraitist of the traditional school of academic art. During a lifetime devoted to portrait art, he painted about 600 portraits, including those of David Lloyd-George (British Prime Minister), Woodrow Wilson (US President) and Sir Douglas Haig (British commander in WWI).
Born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, the son of a sol (showing 500 of 3387 characters). |
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