Orpen Painting Reproductions

Part of the Irish Archive

Description

Black and white prints reproducing portrait paintings by William Orpen. A small number of prints include inscriptions on the rear noting the subject's identity, and/or featuring a stamp for the photographic studio which created the reproduction. Subjects include military figures, society figures, members of the academic community, children, a number of Orpen's own self-portraits, alongside a number of Orpen's landscape and still life scenes. The majority of the prints are mounted on card, while a small number are paper prints only. The primary photographic studio/photographer is identified as Paul Laib, Fine Art Photographer, 3 Thistle Grove, South Kensington, London. Identified landscape and still life scenes include The Wreck; Two Chinese; The Fracture; The Jockey (self-portrait); The Wash House; The Dead Ptarmigan (a Self-Portrait); and Dead Pheasant. Identified subjects include: Ferris St. George; Mrs. St. George; Lady Grace Orpen; William Hughes; [Venezelos]; Charles Sackville-West; W.F. Massey; Sir Robert Williams; A.P. Rhys Davids; Michael Davitt M.P.; Sir Anthony P. MacDonnell; William O'Brien; Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham, Paris; Sir Ian Malcolm; 'Mr. Epstein of Baltimore'; 'Arthur V. Davis of Pittsburgh'; Lady Lisburne; Miss Sinclair; Ms. H.M. White; Lady Gwendeline Churchill; Lord Derby; Sir Hugh Reid; Sir Frederick Eckstein; Miss Mona Dunn; Dr. Young; Colonel Robert Leatham; Percy Wyndham; Lord Meath; Sir Thomas Maloney; Winston Churchill; Colonel A.N. Lee; Miss Major; Lord Merivale; Lord Sumner; Sir M. Hawkey; Field Marshall Haig; Lord Riddell; Lord Younger; Dr. Ivor Back; and Neville Chamberlain. Penmanship on a number of prints is poor. Le Chef de l'Hôtel Chatham is also reproduced as the front page cover image of the magazine Everybody's, published between [1899-1929], and included with this file.