Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, was an Irish artist who mainly worked 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.
Orpen, self-portrait painting Sowing New Seed (1913) (Saint Louis Art Museum)
The Mirror (1900) (Tate)
Grace reading at Howth Bay (c.1908-1912)
Ready to Start (1917)
A war artist is an artist either commissioned by a government or publication, or self-motivated, to document first-hand experience of war in any form of illustrative or depictive record. War artists explore the visual and sensory dimensions of war, often absent in written histories or other accounts of warfare.
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 by Paul Nash. Nash was a war artist in both World War I and World War II
A war artist in German-occupied France in 1941
Australians and New Zealanders at Klerksdorp 24 March 1901 by Charles Hammond
The Fall of Nelson, Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 by Denis Dighton, c. 1825