Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931), Painter
Sitter in 27 portraits
Artist associated with 29 portraits
Irish-born artist; highly successful and fashionable portrait painter; a War Artist from 1917, painted scenes from the Western Front and in 1919 portraits of political and military leaders in Paris for the Versailles Peace Conference, including two large groups, A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay and The Signing of the Peace in the Hall of Mirrors (Imperial War Museum).
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
pencil, circa 1898
NPG 5267
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, exhibited 1900
On display at Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries, Birmingham, UK in the exhibition 'Identity & Dialogue'
NPG 4252
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
pencil
NPG 2565
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1903
NPG 5596
Group associated with the New English Art Club
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
pencil, black chalk (or charcoal), pen, ink and watercolour, circa 1904
NPG 6345
Sir Hugh Percy Lane; John Millington Synge; William Butler Yeats; Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
pen and ink, 1907
NPG 4676
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
chalk, 1909
NPG 2791
The Selecting Jury of the New English Art Club, 1909
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1909
On display in Room 29 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 2556
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
pencil and wash, 1910
NPG 2638
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, circa 1910
NPG 5982
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by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1916
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG L250
Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
On display in Room 30 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 4188
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4184
Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4185
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4651
Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
On display at Royal College of Defence Studies, London
NPG 4650
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4179
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 2639
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4180
Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville
by Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
oil on canvas, 1919
NPG 4649
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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