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Sir William Orpen
The Rt Hon Timothy Healy,Governor General of the Irish Free State
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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 Rt Hon Timothy Healy,Governor General of the Irish Free State | A Woman | The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors,Versailles | Dead Germans in a Trench | Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig,KT.GCB.GCVO,KCIE,Comander-in-Chief,France | Related Artists: Picknell, William LambAmerican, 1853-1897
was a United States painter of landscapes, coastal views, and figure genres, known for his rapid painting style. He was born in Hinesburg, Vermont and died in Marblehead, Prout, SamuelEnglish Painter, 1783-1852
Painter, draughtsman and writer. Together with his fellow pupil Benjamin Robert Haydon, Prout was encouraged to study drawing by the headmaster of his grammar school in Plymouth. In 1801 he met the topographer and antiquarian John Britton, who, impressed with his work, invited him to London the following year to make drawings of antiquarian subjects and copy works of other artists, including Thomas Hearne, William Alexander and J. M. W. Turner. Cornelis JonsonCornelis I Jonson Van Ceulen
(1593 -1661 ) - Painter
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