Orpen
Americannoun
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The men behind the new law included Francis Orpen Morris, a naturalist who was rector of Nunburnholme, and Henry Barnes-Lawrence, the vicar of Bridlington, as historian David Neave explains.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
Harold Samuel Orpen of St Mary's Mansions, in Paddington central London, was nearly 47 and a retired regular Army officer.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022
The bank bought the work of young contemporary artists, which was cheap, as well as the work of Yeats, Orpen and Lavery, which even in the 1980s was not.
From The Guardian • May 13, 2015
Orpen strives to be religiously impersonal in his praise, but his painter's predilections for Botticelli, Giorgione, Moroni, Lotto, Holbein, Hals, Velasquez, Vermeer, Chardin, Hogarth, Raeburn, Richard Wilson, shine through.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently the leopard permitted Orpen to rise and come away.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
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