Sir William Orpen RA, RI, HRHA
Born 27 November 1878
Died 29 September 1931
Active: 1891 - 1931
Country of birth: Ireland
Country of death: England
Painter
Wealth at death: £159,174 10s. 8d.
Probate date: 9 December 1931
Institutional and Business Connections
Chairwoman/chairman of British Artists' Exhibitions
Student at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
Teacher of drawing at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
Teacher of painting at Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin
Sources
Catalogue of the Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists
1927
p. 2
Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin. Headmaster's Report for the Year ending 31 July 1907 Headmaster's Annual Reports
'The Appointment of Mr. William Orpen as a visiting Master for the figure drawing and painting classes has strengthened the staff of the school'.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Bruce Arnold, ‘Orpen, Sir William Newenham Montague (1878–1931)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35331, accessed 21 Aug 2010]
Citing this record
'Sir William Orpen RA, RI, HRHA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1216633011, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
