Word: orpen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister's Pointers. Churchill's chief friends in the art world were the English academic masters Sir John Lavery, Walter Sickert, Sir William Orpen. From Lavery he took lessons, from Sickert and Orpen, advice and encouragement. All of them influenced him. But one day in the south of France he met two impressionists at work and talked with them. Of their effect on him he later wrote: "Look also at the blue of the Mediterranean. How can you depict and record it? Certainly not by any single color that was ever manufactured. The only way in which...
Over the living-room mantle, as in a shrine, hangs a portrait of Woodrow Wil son, by Sir William Orpen, perhaps the best portrait of Wilson ever made. In the ballroom, in pre-rationing days, he some times dined as many as 96 people, to the accompaniment of footmen in bright blue livery...