Examination Certificates pertaining to William Orpen's Early Training

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Box file contains forty original academic certificates issued to William Orpen as a young student, upon completion of various art subject examinations at the Metropolitan School of Art Dublin and London's Slade Fine Art School. Examined subjects include Drawing from the Antique; Perspective; Freehand Drawing of Ornament; Model Drawing; Principles of Ornament; Anatomy; Design; Drawing in Light and Shade; Painting Ornament in Monochrome; Drawing the Antique from Memory; Practical Plane and Solid Geometry; Drawing from the Life; Historic Ornament; Modelling Design; and Painting from Still Life. Each certificate outlines the date of examination, the number of candidates assessed, the proportion of candidates awarded each grade (Excellent; 1st class; 2nd class; Failed), and the result awarded to William Orpen. The reverse of many certificates includes a list of the art and science subjects examined each year by the Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education (and its subsequent counterparts). Box also includes two reports, one an annual report published by the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin in 1893, the other an Examiner's Report with a List of Student Awardees, published by the Department in 1896. Arranged in chronological order.

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Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education, Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education, University College London: Slade Fine Art School

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Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education University College London: Slade Fine Art School