Word: orpen
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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...
...friend, Critic Edmund Gosse, Baring sent a telegram: "Maurice Baring passed away peacefully this afternoon." At Gosse's Marsh heard Artist-Writer Max Beerbohm explain the diminutive figures in William Orpen's pictures: because Orpen was so short. "He sits down to paint, and says, 'Now I'll do a tremendously big fellow, I should think about five foot...
...romantic grasp of character. Born at Tenby in 1878 of parents variously described as Welsh or gypsy or both, he entered London's severe Slade School at 5 and quickly became the most brilliant draftsman in a shoal which included Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen...
Left. By the late Philip Alexius Laszlo de Lombos, Hungarian-born British subject, painter of kings, presidents, tycoons and socialites, who died last November at 68: a fortune of ?141,000. Only two British painters in the 20th Century, Walter William Ouless and Sir William Orpen, have left more...
...Christie's auction rooms, London, a set of self-sketches by Charlie Chaplin, once the property of the late Sir William Orpen, was bought for $18 by Sir Alec Martin, Christie's partner...