After six months of negotiations and following four long years of war ... satisfied no one – and its reverberations would be felt across the century that followed. William Orpen, the Irish ...

But his work in capturing the war and some of the early 20th century’s most important figures cements William Orpen’s legacy as one of Ireland’s most important and successful artists.

When Maj William Orpen arrived in ... of information was not permissible to a war artist, but one with such a provocative title particularly so, hence Orpen’s recall to London from France ...

OF ALL William Orpen's self-portraits ... viewers versatility would be equated with insincerity. Orpen was affected by the First World War, in which he was an official artist, but not in a ...

A set of four pencil drawings of a dog by Sir William Orpen has turned up in ... a portrait painter in London and as one of Britain's official first World War artists. He died, aged 52, in 1931.

A beautiful young woman, a German spy; the London War Office and an execution — the story behind William Orpen’s Nude Girl ... sentenced to be shot. Granted one last request, she chose to ...