The historian Goddard Henry Orpen was his second cousin. His large paintings of the Versailles Peace Conference captured the political wranglings and the vainglory of the gathered politicians and statesmen, whom Orpen came to loathe but relied upon for post-war commissions. Kenneth McConkey tackles this view in commemoration of the centenary of the Great War.. The Refugee (Yvonne Aupicq) 1918 by William Orpen. Self Portrait, circa 1910, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 10 am – 6 pm. It is certainly the opinion of those who, like myself, are engaged in the affair of collocating the war-work of artists with a view to obtaining a more or less complete artistic record of the war. Its failure to convey the sense of the tragedy of war amounts, for my mind, almost to levity. Both his parents were amateur painters, and his eldest brother, Richard Caulfield Orpen, became a notable architect. This book, which accompanies a retrospective exhibition at the Imperial War Museum London in January 2005, reappraises an artist who, at the time of his death in 1931, was probably the best-known painter in Britain. William Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular painter of the well-to-do in the period leading up to World War I. Self Portrait in Helmet 1917 by William Orpen. Orpen’s are real soldiers, waging real war in the real France. The compliment is high. Robert Upstone and Emma Chambers November 2009, revised May 2011 The Main Street, Combles 1917 by William Orpen. There he produced drawings and paintings of ordinary soldiers, dead men, and German prisoners of war, as well as portraits of generals and politicians. William Orpen, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1903. The second thing I wish to note is the singular freshness of vision, evoking a truly remarkable vivacity of invention, chiefly in the composition. It is true that Mr. Arnold Bennett, in a preface to the catalogue of Mr. Orpen’s paintings and drawings on the Western front, at Messrs Agnew’s, speaks of the imaginative sympathy from which their genuine emotion springs. Lord Beaverbrook at the opening of Orpen’s exhibition at Agnew’s Galleries. So that we are obliged to limit the axiom a little and say: “War is monotonous – for all men except William Orpen”. Monotony is therefore inevitable. Most of the paintings are in The Imperial War Museum and Orpen was subsequently awarded the Order of The British Empire. William Orpen: Method & Mastery - Reviews by pupils from Guildford County and Rodborough School. I am sure in the hearts of every one of us there is a real, a deep, and a lasting debt of gratitude and obligation to Major Orpen”. And to get a more intimate notion of the artist’s idiosyncrasy, of his own personal way of savoring life, examine his portraits of himself. And in figure-paintings, you can more plainly see the evidences of that taste for life and for all life which is at the bottom of William Orpen’s achievement and renown. He never fails to fulfill his share of the unspoken contract which is implied between the painter and the beholder. From the IAR Summer 2014 Edition: Was William Orpen a man out of step with modernism? Orpen was a naturally talented painter and was enrolled, six weeks before his thirteenth birthday, at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Their success is largely due, apart from the reality of the inspiration, to an extreme competence in the choice and employment of means. Orpen was desperate to remain in France - "my native land" (67) - and was willing to forego expenses, but there was some confusion on this subject. His resourcefulness is as reliable and unerring as that of Mozart. I ought to remark, in passing, that even William Orpen could scarcely have accomplished what he has accomplished, in the brief period and in the difficult conditions imposed, if he had not apparently invented a special technique for the purpose. His two metre wide painting, The Play Scene from Hamlet won the Slade composition prize in 1899. Most of these works, 138 in all, he donated to the British government and they are now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. A famous art-critic said to me; “The mischief is that in war there are only six subjects for a painter”. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. The family lived at Oriel, a large house with extensive grounds containing stables and a tennis court. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful, painter of portraits for the well-to-do in Edwardian society, though many of his most striking paintings are self-portraits. Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE, RA, RHA (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish portrait painter, who worked mainly in London. He needs neither to be “taken down”, for his modesty inaccurate; nor to be “written up” for he is one of the most celebrated painters of the day. The full text of the article is here →, UCL Slade School of Fine Art (University College London), London, UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen. 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