William Orpen
Subtitle: Politics, Sex and Death
Contributors: Robert Upstone (Editor); Roy Foster (Editor); David Fraser Jenkins (Editor)
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Published: March 24, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780856675966
Subjects: Art styles: c 1900 to First World War; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Individual Artist; Art / Individual Artist
First sentence: One of the great British artists of the first quarter of the twentieth century, Orpen is an intriguing example of a painter who, despite his career as a highly successful portraitist, remained something of an outsider.