William Orpen
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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 i
Sowing New Seed, a 1913 self-portrait by Orpen
The Mirror (1900) (Tate)
Grace reading at Howth Bay (c.1908-1912)
Ready to Start (1917)
The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28 June 1919 is an oil-on-canvas painting by Irish artist William Orpen, completed in 1919. It was one of the paintings commissioned from Orpen
William Orpen
…individual portraits of the delegates to the Conference and these formed the basis of his two large paintings, A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay and The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors. In both pictures, the architecture overwhelms the gathered politicians and statesmen whose political wranglings and vainglory had diminished them in…
William Orpen The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors
To the Unknown British Soldier in France
A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay